The Women’s Circus
The authors are all members of the Women's Circus. Adrienne Liebmann works as a professional caterer; Deb Lewis runs services for young people who are visually impaired; Louise Radcliffe-Smith is a journalist; Patricia Sykes is an award-winning poet and author of Wire Dancing and Modewarre: Home Ground; Jean Taylor is an activist for feminist and lesbian causes and is the author of The C-Word: A Story About Cancer. Jen Jordan died just before Women's Circus was published.
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Patricia Sykes
It takes neither dynamite / nor earth quake /
the business of circus / is its own upheaval
Circus as drama and risk, as exuberance and irrepressible spirit, is the central metaphor Patricia Sykes uses to open a world where public and private share the same tightrope. The poems speak of women searching for footholds along the spectrums of politics, power, history, culture and relationships.
Theirs are performances of celebration and hope as they wire dance through circumcision and incest, madness and suicide, genocide and war. There is passion and resistance, hot comedy and fire in the belly. Falling is the first victory, balance is the ultimate skill.
plastic surgery / will not cure / the mortalities / of a circus maximus
1999 | ISBN 9781875559909 | Paperback | 200 x 130 mm | 151 pages