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C+nto & Othered Poems

by Joelle Taylor

T.S. Eliot Prize · 2021 · Winner
The Westbourne PresspoetryISBN 9781908906489

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T.S. Eliot Prize2021Winner

About This Book

Joelle Taylor's T.S. Eliot Prize-winning collection celebrates butch lesbian identity and the bar cultures of the 1990s, mourning their loss while insisting on their historical importance. Part elegy, part manifesto, the poems are loud, defiant, and emotionally devastating.

About the Author

Joelle TaylorGB

Joelle Taylor is a British poet, playwright, and founder of the SLAMbassadors youth poetry slam. She won the T.S. Eliot Prize in 2021 for C+nto & Othered Poems (The Westbourne Press), a collection exploring butch lesbian identity and bar culture through a fusion of poetry and prose.

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