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Dress Rehearsals

Madison Godfrey

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English
JOAN
28 February 2023
Named as one of the Guardian's Best Books of 2023

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?

'Unlike anything else you'll ever read.' InStyle Australia

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

'Madison Godfrey wields words with exquisite precision and Dress Rehearsals is as taut, 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

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Imprint:   JOAN
Country of Publication:   Australia
Dimensions:   Height: 208mm,  Width: 153mm, 
Weight:   152g
ISBN:   9781761068577
ISBN 10:   1761068571
Pages:   128
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Madison 'Maddie' Godfrey is a writer, educator, and emotional feminist. They have performed poetry at The Sydney Opera House, St Paul's Cathedral and Glastonbury Festival. Madison is a previous recipient of the Kat Muscat Fellowship, the Varuna Poetry Flagship Fellowship and was recently awarded a WA Youth Award for their 'Creative Contributions' to the state. Currently Madison is completing their PhD and living on Whadjuk Noongar land with a rescue cat named Sylvia.

Reviews for Dress Rehearsals

'I inhaled this book.' Dylin Hardcastle, author of Below Deck 'Madison Godfrey wields words with exquisite precision and Dress Rehearsals is as taut, 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 'Unlike anything else you'll ever read. It's an ode to womanhood, performative feminism and deeply confessional. Godfrey has created a deeply intimate letter to their experience of the everyday through an autobiography of sultry poetry.' InStyle Australia 'A force to be reckoned with . . . it will crawl under your skin and stay there.' Secret Book Club


  • Long-listed for Best Designed Literary Fiction/Poetry Cover 2024 (Australia)
  • Short-listed for Best Designed Literary Fiction/Poetry Cover 2024 (Australia)

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