{"product_id":"maryville-9781526680488","title":"Maryville","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the T. S. Eliot and Polari Prize-winning author of \u003ci\u003eC+NTO \u0026amp; Othered Poems \u003c\/i\u003ecomes an innovative collection exploring the scars, hopes and potentialities of dyke counterculture and the queer underground.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith 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, \u003ci\u003eMaryville \u003c\/i\u003econjures ghosts back to their bodies, a community to their feet.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePRAISE FOR \u003ci\u003eC+NTO \u0026amp; Othered Poems:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVisionary and powerful. I loved it' \u003cb\u003eHOLLIE MCNISH\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eLobster\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUnlike anything I've ever read before ... Epic and intimate'\u003cb\u003e BERNARDINE EVARISTO\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eGirl, Woman, Other\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003eInventive, powerfully moving' \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTELEGRAPH\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52151289708887,"sku":"9781526680488","price":13.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781526680488.jpg?v=1762960727","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/maryville-9781526680488","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}