Cunto and Other Poems

Part-memoir, part-conjecture, Joelle Taylor investigates sexuality and gender in poetry that is lyrical, expansive, imagistic, epic and intimate.

Info autore

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.

Riassunto

SHORTLISTED FOR THE T S ELIOT PRIZE 2021. Part-memoir, part-conjecture, Joelle Taylor investigates sexuality and gender in poetry that is lyrical, expansive, imagistic, epic and intimate.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Joelle Taylor, Taylor Joelle
• Editore: External catalogues_UK
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Tascabile
• Data pubblicazione: 30.06.2021
• Categoria: Narrativa > Poesia lirica, drammatica; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura generale e comparata
• EAN: 9781908906489
• ISBN: 978-1-908906-48-9
• Dimensioni (della confezione): 12.8 x 19.7 x 1 cm
• Categorie: Gay, Gender, Memoir, POETRY / General, Poetry, lesbian, POETRY / Women Authors, Of specific Lesbian interest, LGBTQ+, Sexuality, Poetry by individual poets, T.S. Eliot Prize, Relating to lesbians, Modern and contemporary poetry (c 1900 onwards), POETRY / LGBTQ+, Lesbian studies, LGBTQ+ Studies / topics, Butch, LGBTQIA+ Studies / topics, Polari Prize, SLAMbassadors, butch counterculture, Out-Spoken, masculine lesbian