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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 ----------------------------------------------------- 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. ----------------------------------------------------- 'Sexy, fearless – and ravishingly beautiful' NEIL BARTLETT 'One of the most powerful voices of our time . . . Joelle Taylor is a genius' CACONRAD

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Visionary and powerful. I loved it -- Hollie McNish, author of Lobster, on C+nto & Othered Poems Unlike anything I’ve ever read before. Partly autobiographical, it excavates, foregrounds and celebrates the lives of butch lesbians through the most memorable and often astonishing poetry that is at once epic and intimate -- Bernardine Evaristo, Books of the Year, TLS, on C+nto & Othered Poems

Delivers layers of brilliance and linguistic ingenuity. Taylor’s poetry is as dangerous as it is dexterous, as sophisticated and tensely coiled as it is a wildfire blazing free, as unclichéd as it is unpredictable, as emotionally engrossing as it is imaginatively mind-blowing. From the very first lines that ignite the imagination to the last . . . this is a consistently dazzling work of art -- BERNARDINE EVARISTO, Booker Prize-winning author of Girl, Woman, Other Diving deep into our collective queer history, Joelle Taylor brings back treasure, spinning traces of the bad old days into a wrong-walking love letter to all the women who went before us. Sexy, fearless – and ravishingly beautiful -- NEIL BARTLETT, author of Ready to Catch Him Should He Fall One of the most powerful voices of our time is what it takes to reveal the silenced generations of lesbians . . . Unlike anything we have ever encountered. Joelle Taylor is a genius, writing poetry onto a stage it has not lived on before, making this an addictive page-turner about the queer family of the past we need to be versed in, so we can stand with triumph and gratitude when we stand on their intrepid shoulders. This book is so much bigger than a book -- CACONRAD, author of Listen to the Golden Boomerang Return Visionary and powerful. I loved it -- HOLLIE McNISH, author of Lobster, on C+nto & Othered Poems

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Joelle Taylor is the author of four collections of poetry. Her previous collection C+NTO & Othered Poems won the 2021 T.S Eliot Prize, and the 2022 Polari Book Prize. C+NTO is currently being adapted for theatre with a view to touring. She is co-curator and host of Out-Spoken Live at the Southbank Centre, and tours her work nationally and internationally in a diverse range of venues, from Australia to Brazil. She is also a Poetry Fellow of University of East Anglia and the curator of the Koestler Awards 2023. She has judged several poetry and literary prizes including Jerwood Fellowship, the Forward Prize and the Ondaatje Prize. Her novel of interconnecting stories The Night Alphabet was published by Riverrun in 2024. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and the 2022 Saboteur Spoken Word Artist of the Year. Her most recent acting role was in Blue Now, inspired by Derek Jarman's Blue. Blue Now was directed by Neil Bartlett and also featured Russell Tovey, Jay Bernard, and Travis Alabanza.

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