Don’t ignore butch lesbians, says T.S. Eliot prize winner Joelle Taylor
ELLA BRAIDWOOD BRITISH poet Joelle Taylor, winner of this year's prestigious T.S. Eliot prize for a collection exploring lesbian identity, says it is time the mainstream media gave a voice to "butch dykes" like herself. Taylor, 54, said she hoped her prize-winning "C+nto & Othered Poems" could act as a catalyst for other under-represented LGBT+ people to offer "an alternative narrative", urging TV production companies to embrace them as writers. "It's about the media accepting a far more diverse set of narratives, and the way we look and owning the fact that they own the narrative to begin with," Taylor…