C+nto & Other Poems

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Trade Paperback – NEW

Non Fiction, Poetry

WINNER OF THE T. S. ELIOT PRIZE 2021

SHORTLISTED FOR THE POLARI BOOK PRIZE 2022

The female body is a political space.

C+ntoenters 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 Taylors 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+ntois a love poem, a riot, a late night, and an honouring.