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 GILLIAN HANSCOMBE |
Sybil: The Glide of Her Tongue
GILLIAN HANSCOMBE
Lesbians are often told that we have no culture, that we have no history, and yet lesbians are always rediscovering hidden histories, literary traditions, codes and behaviours that have been obscured, obliterated or proclaimed irrelevant. Sybil: The Glide of Her Tongue challenges that version of the past, and Gillian Hanscombe has written an exhilarating and richly textured collection of poems.
‘Gillian Hanscombe is one of the most insightfully ironic, deliciously lyrical voices we have writing amongst us today.’ —Betsy Warland
‘Sybil is an exciting and compelling work. It is hard to think of any poet in Australia who can equal Hanscombe’s virtuosity and power.’ —Bev Roberts, Australian Book Review‘
Gillian Hanscombe’s poetry opens up meaning in such a way that it provides for beauty and awareness, for a space where one says yes to a lesbian we of awareness.’ —Nicole Brossard
‘Sybil: The Glide of Her Tongue is a prophetic fugue in lesbian past, present and future time. Sybilline tidings of lesbian existence.’ —Mary Meigs
‘Gillian Hanscombe performs a feat of lesbian imagination in this stunning sequence. Her sybilic voice, familiar and strange at once, radiates both vision and anger in prose that echoes the music of our thoughts back to us.’ —Daphne Marlatt
Gillian Hanscombe is the author of two previous collections of poetry, Hecate's Charms and Flesh and Paper (with Suniti Namjoshi), two novels, Figments of a Murder and Between Friends as well as works of non-fiction. She lives in Devon, UK.
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