Ts Eliot Prize Winner

Cunto & Othered Poems

by Joelle Taylor

Summary

A tribute to the butch lesbian subculture of the 1990s, blending personal memoir with a "theatrical" celebration of queer spaces.

Historical Context & Significance

Taylor is a slam-poetry veteran; her win brought the energy of "spoken word" into the high-brow halls of the T.S. Eliot Prize.