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Maryville

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Maryville

By: Joelle Taylor
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A POETRY BOOK SOCIETY RECOMMENDATION

'Taylor's poetry is as dangerous as it is dexterous . . . A wildfire blazing free' BERNARDINE EVARISTO
'Kaleidoscopic in its breath, structure and humanity . . . Both selfless and intimate' ANTHONY JOSEPH
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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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'Sexy, fearless – and ravishingly beautiful' NEIL BARTLETT
'One of the most powerful voices of our time . . . Joelle Taylor is a genius' CACONRAD

©2025 Joelle Taylor (P)2025 Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Critic Reviews

Maryville is lesbian life made lyrical, wrapped in jagged emotion. A captivating image of how we change each other, how we shape ourselves, and how we persevere (ELEANOR MEDHURST, author of Unsuitable)
Visionary and powerful. I loved it (HOLLIE McNISH, author of Lobster, on C+nto & Othered Poems)
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