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Maryville

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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... Read More
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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 & the queer underground.

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 & the queer underground.

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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

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781526680488

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 06 November 2025

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Bloomsbury Poetry

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 22.0mm

Width: 130.0mm

Height: 202.0mm

Weight: 265g

Pages: 192

About the Author

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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