Maryville by Joelle Taylor

A POETRY BOOK SOCIETY RECOMMENDATION
 
From the T. S. Eliot and Polari Prize-winning author of C+NTO & Othered Poems comes an innovative collection exploring the scars, hopes and potentialities of dyke counterculture and the queer underground.

With a vividly sketched cast of characters, award-winning poet Joelle Taylor uses the Maryville butch bar as a lens through which to consider the underground histories of queer London. The violence and pain of oppression and the beauty and intimacy of community are rendered in awe-inspiring high definition in a collection as filmic as it is familiar. A hybrid chronicle, magic trick, prayer and insurrection, Maryville conjures ghosts back to their bodies, a community to their feet.
 
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 'Taylor's poetry is as dangerous as it is dexterous . . .A wildfire blazing free' BERNARDINE EVARISTO
 
'Sexy, fearless – and ravishingly beautiful' NEIL BARTLETT
 
'One of the most powerful voices of our time . . .Joelle Taylor is a genius' CACONRAD