C+NTO
& Othered Poems
Published on 1. June 2021
128 pages
978-1-908906-49-6 (ISBN)
Description
Winner of the T. S. Eliot Prize 2021 and the Polari Prize 2022
A New Statesman, TLS and White Review Book of the Year
The female body is a political space.
C+nto enters the private lives of women from the butch counterculture, telling the inside story of the protests they led in the '90s to reclaim their bodies as their own - their difficult balance between survival and self-expression. History, magic, rebellion, party and sermon vibrate through Joelle Taylor's cantos to uncover these underground communities forged by women.
Part-memoir and part-conjecture, Taylor explores sexuality and gender in poetry that is lyrical, expansive, imagistic, epic and intimate. C+nto is a love poem, a riot, a late night and an honouring.
A New Statesman, TLS and White Review Book of the Year
The female body is a political space.
C+nto enters the private lives of women from the butch counterculture, telling the inside story of the protests they led in the '90s to reclaim their bodies as their own - their difficult balance between survival and self-expression. History, magic, rebellion, party and sermon vibrate through Joelle Taylor's cantos to uncover these underground communities forged by women.
Part-memoir and part-conjecture, Taylor explores sexuality and gender in poetry that is lyrical, expansive, imagistic, epic and intimate. C+nto is a love poem, a riot, a late night and an honouring.
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'This writing is visionary - I was taken to the heart of a dense poetic history, saw every image as though I were living it. What a powerful thing to experience in a book. I loved it.'--Hollie McNishMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
File size
0,31 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-908906-49-6 (9781908906496)
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Person
Joelle Taylor is an award-winning poet, playwright and author. A fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a Saboteur Spoken Word Artist of the Year (2022), Taylor is the host and co-curator of Out-Spoken, the UK's premier poetry and music club, currently resident at the Southbank Centre. A former UK slam champion, she founded SLAMbassadors, the UK's youth slam championships, in 2001 and was its Artistic Director and National Coach until 2018. Taylor is the author of three plays, a forthcoming novel and four poetry collections, including C+nto & Othered Poems, which won the 2021 T. S. Eliot Prize and was longlisted for the 2021 Ondaatje Prize. Her documentary Butch was recently featured on BBC Radio 4.
Content
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Preface
- Glossary
- Vitrine
- C+nto
- Round One: the body as battleground
- Round Two: the body as protest
- Round Three: the body as trespass
- Round Four: the body as cemetery
- Round Five: the body as backroom
- Round Six: the body as haunted house
- Round Seven: the body as uprising
- Vitrine Reprise
- O, Maryville
- I
- Psalm
- A Lesbian Walks into a Bar
- II
- Valentine
- Angel
- Dudizile
- Jack Catch
- III
- Article Three
- IV
- Homosapien
- The Unbelong
- Angel the destroyer
- Valentine creation myth
- Dudizile everything in its place
- V
- Heaven, 1995
- Jack Catch teaches at the old school
- Fist Fucking in the Yemen
- VI
- Summer All Night Long
- VII
- Angel heel boi
- Valentine snow globe
- Dudizile difficult rivers
- Jack Catch to the lighthouse
- VIII
- A Woman Steps Out of Her Wound
- IX
- Angel in the red corner
- Legend of the First Butch
- Dudizile the first stone
- Angel young bull
- Got a Light, Jack?
- X
- The Battle of Maryville
- Black Triangle
- XI
- December
- Eulogy
- XII
- Butch Proverb No.3
- Trauma: The Opera
- Joelle Taylor Performances QR Codes
- Acknowledgements
- Credits
