Cunto & Othered Poems

Summary

A fierce and celebratory elegy for the butch lesbian bar culture of the 1990s, this collection weaves personal memoir with communal history to honour the queer spaces and bodies that have been erased or marginalised by time and by the culture's ongoing indifference. Taylor's voice combines the performance energy of slam poetry with a genuine lyric gift, and the result is a book that is loud, tender, and formally alive. Her win brought the spoken-word tradition into productive tension with the more literary criteria of the T. S. Eliot Prize.