Maryville - Taylor, Joelle
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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, television series, prayer and insurrection, Maryville conjures ghosts back to their bodies, a community to their feet. The four butches introduced in Cunto & Othered Poems return transplanted into the Maryville bar…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
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, television series, prayer and insurrection, Maryville conjures ghosts back to their bodies, a community to their feet. The four butches introduced in Cunto & Othered Poems return transplanted into the Maryville bar in 1957 as teenagers. They bring with them stories of incarceration, escape, and resilience - a quality that will mark their friendship for the next 50 years. Through the Maryville's darkened windows, we watch the Gay Liberation Front stagger to its feet, a nascent women's liberation movement bite off its bindings, squat culture's wild spread across the city, the fight against Clause 28, the Brixton Riots, the Sex Wars and much more. Inside, the Maryville has its own rituals, its own revolutions to consider. More than anything the Maryville is a safe space to be dangerous. Women find themselves in each other's faces while outside Boy-Boy's howl their infinite carols.
Autorenporträt
Joelle Taylor is the author of 5 collections of poetry and one novel. Her most recent collection C+NTO & Othered Poems won the 2021 T.S Eliot Prize, and the 2022 Polari Book Prize for LGBT authors. C+NTO is currently being adapted both for theatre, and into a television screenplay, and was featured on the Radio Three documentary Butch. She is a co- curator and host of Out-Spoken Live at the Southbank Centre and tours her work nationally and internationally from Queen Elizabeth Hall to Sydney Opera House, from Australia to Brazil. She has judged several poetry and literary prizes including the Jerwood Fellowship, the Forward Prize, the Ondaatje Prize, and the curator of the Koestler Awards 2023. Her novel The Night Alphabet was published in Spring of 2024 and was named both a Spectator and Guardian Book of the Year. Her most recent radio programme A Young Girl's Guide to Horror was broadcast at the end of last year on BBC Radio Four. In 2023 and 2024 she toured the UK as a part of Blue Now, directed by Neil Bartlett and featuring Russell Tovey, Travis Alabanza and Jay Bernard. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and a former Saboteur Spoken Word Artist of the Year. She was recently honoured with a DIVA Award for Outstanding Contribution and named in the 2025 Pride Power list.
Rezensionen
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