C+nto - Joelle Taylor

C+nto

By Joelle Taylor

  • Release Date: 2021-06-07
  • Genre: Poetry

Book Synopsis

WINNER OF THE T S ELIOT PRIZE 2021

WINNER OF THE POLARI PRIZE 2022

'Visionary and powerful. I loved it.' Hollie McNish

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.

minds. Here is poetry that defends our right to walk without fear, wear what we choose, be who we uniquely are." - - Diana Souhami

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