Author(s): Madison Godfrey

Poetry | Memoirs / Own Voices | Identity - Non-Binary | Australian Authors | Identity - LGBTQIA+ / Queer

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?