Dress Rehearsals

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Named as one of the Guardian's Best Books of 2023My femininity is not a survival instinct, it is a song.In their brilliant new poetry collection, Madison Godfrey documents a decade of performing womanhood, from teenage fangirl to tender femme. Godfrey's poems approach the autobiographical body as a site of the everyday and the surreal: experiencing first crushes, mosh pits, sharpened nails, gender euphoria, and the complicated colours of desire and memory.Darkly witty and deeply confessional, Dress Rehearsals is a love story to the queer self. This coming-of-age memoir asks, what does it mean to wear femininity into the world, when it constitutes both a bullseye and a ballgown?'Unlike anything else you'll ever read.' - InStyle Australia'I inhaled this book.' - Dylin Hardcastle, author of Below Deck'Madison Godfrey wields words with exquisite precision and Dress Rehearsals is as taut, seductive and deadly as a femme fatale herself. These are poems to impale yourself on. A work of distilled genius.' - Yves Rees, author of All About Yves

Book details and technical specifications

Format: Paperback / softback
ISBN13: 9781761068577
Published: February 2023

Number of pages: 128
Width: 153 mm
Height: 208 mm
Depth: not specified

Publisher: Allen & Unwin