Maryville

<p><b>A <i>POETRY BOOK SOCIETY</i> RECOMMENDATION</b><br><br>''Taylor''s poetry is as dangerous as it is dexterous . . . A wildfire blazing free'' <b>BERNARDINE EVARISTO</b><br><b>''</b>Kaleidoscopic in its breath, structure and humanity . . . Both selfless and intimate'' <b>ANTHONY JOSEPH</b><br>-----------------------------------------------------<br><b><br>From the T. S. Eliot and Polari Prize-winning author of <i>C+NTO & Othered Poems </i>comes an innovative collection exploring the scars, hopes and potentialities of dyke counterculture and the queer underground.</b><br><br>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, <i>Maryville </i>conjures ghosts back to their bodies, a community to their feet.<br><br>-----------------------------------------------------<br>''Sexy, fearless – and ravishingly beautiful'' <b>NEIL BARTLETT</b><br>''One of the most powerful voices of our time . . . Joelle Taylor is a genius'' <b>CACONRAD</b></p>