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Issue Details: First known date: 2023... 2023 Dress Rehearsals
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'A memoir made of poetry, Dress Rehearsals documents a decade of performing womanhood in a non-binary body.

'My 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?

''I inhaled this book.' Dylin Hardcastle, author of Below Deck

''Madison Godfrey wields words with exquisite precision and Dress Rehearsals is as taught, 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' (Publication summary) 

Notes

  • Epigraph:

    'And I watch you, your reversal,

    it's an honest thing when there's no one there.

    Some days they feel like dress rehearsals, 

    some days I watch and you don't care.'

    -La Dispute

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Crows Nest, North Sydney - Lane Cove area, Sydney Northern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: Allen and Unwin , 2023 .
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      Cover image courtesy of publisher.
      Extent: 128p.
      Note/s:
      •  Published 28 February 2023

      ISBN: 9781761068577

Other Formats

  • Large print.
  • Braille.

Works about this Work

Book Review : Dress Rehearsals, Madison Godfrey Ellie Fisher , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: ArtsHub , March 2023;

— Review of Dress Rehearsals Maddie Godfrey , 2023 selected work poetry autobiography

'An electric and poetic manifesto of selfhood.'

I Don’t Feel Like I Was Born into the Wrong Body. There’s Not a Right or Wrong Way to be Trans Maddie Godfrey , 2023 single work essay
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 22 May 2023;
Book Review : Dress Rehearsals, Madison Godfrey Ellie Fisher , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: ArtsHub , March 2023;

— Review of Dress Rehearsals Maddie Godfrey , 2023 selected work poetry autobiography

'An electric and poetic manifesto of selfhood.'

I Don’t Feel Like I Was Born into the Wrong Body. There’s Not a Right or Wrong Way to be Trans Maddie Godfrey , 2023 single work essay
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 22 May 2023;
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