Maryville

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. PRAISE FOR C+NTO & Othered Poems: Visionary and powerful. I loved it HOLLIE MCNISH, author of Lobster Unlike anything Ive ever read before ... Epic and intimate BERNARDINE EVARISTO, author of Girl, Woman, Other Inventive, powerfully moving TELEGRAPH