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"T.S. Eliot Prize winner, one-time UK slam champion, and overall poetry powerhouse Joelle Taylor debuts her new collection: Maryville casts an incandescent light on lesbian subcultures and hidden queer histories via a London butch bar, revisited across the decades. She marks its Bookhaus launch with a stirring evening of readings and discussion."
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A event held at Bookhaus on Friday 5th December. The event starts at 18:00.
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.
Joelle Taylor will be here to perform a reading and discuss this at bookhaus. Tickets cost £7 and include a glass of wine or a soft drink. Presented by bookhaus.
'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
'Sexy, fearless – and ravishingly beautiful' NEIL BARTLETT
'One of the most powerful voices of our time . . . Joelle Taylor is a genius' CACONRAD
Entry requirements: no age restrictions
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.
Joelle Taylor will be here to perform a reading and discuss this at bookhaus. Tickets cost £7 and include a glass of wine or a soft drink. Presented by bookhaus.
'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
'Sexy, fearless – and ravishingly beautiful' NEIL BARTLETT
'One of the most powerful voices of our time . . . Joelle Taylor is a genius' CACONRAD
Entry requirements: no age restrictions
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