Our book of the week comes from our Winter Recommendation: Joelle Taylor's innovative new collection, Maryville.
With a vividly sketched cast of characters, the award-winning poet uses the fictional 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.
"Maryville is lesbian life made lyrical"
- Eleanor Medhurst
Order your copy of Maryville here, with 25% off using your membership discount code.