{"product_id":"maryville-9781638042105","title":"Maryville","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith a vividly sketched cast of\u003cbr\u003echaracters, award-winning poet Joelle Taylor uses the Maryville butch bar as a\u003cbr\u003elens through which to consider the underground histories of queer London. The\u003cbr\u003eviolence and pain of oppression and the beauty and intimacy of community are\u003cbr\u003erendered in awe-inspiring high definition in a collection as filmic as it is\u003cbr\u003efamiliar. A hybrid chronicle, magic trick, television series, prayer and\u003cbr\u003einsurrection, \u003ci\u003eMaryville \u003c\/i\u003econjures ghosts back\u003cbr\u003eto their bodies, a community to their feet. The four butches\u003cbr\u003eintroduced in \u003ci\u003eCunto \u0026amp; Othered Poems\u003c\/i\u003e return transplanted into the\u003cbr\u003eMaryville bar in 1957 as teenagers. They bring with them stories of\u003cbr\u003eincarceration, escape, and resilience - a quality that will mark their\u003cbr\u003efriendship for the next 50 years. Through the Maryville's darkened windows, we\u003cbr\u003ewatch the Gay Liberation Front stagger to its feet, a nascent women's\u003cbr\u003eliberation movement bite off its bindings, squat culture's wild spread across\u003cbr\u003ethe city, the fight against Clause 28, the Brixton Riots, the Sex Wars and much\u003cbr\u003emore. Inside, the Maryville has its own rituals, its own revolutions to\u003cbr\u003econsider. More than anything the Maryville is a safe space to be dangerous.\u003cbr\u003eWomen find themselves in each other's faces while outside Boy-Boy's howl their\u003cbr\u003einfinite carols.  \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eJoelle Taylor\u003cbr\u003eis the author of 5 collections of poetry and one novel. Her most recent\u003cbr\u003ecollection \u003ci\u003eC+NTO\u003cbr\u003e\u0026amp; Othered Poems \u003c\/i\u003ewon\u003cbr\u003ethe 2021 T.S Eliot Prize, and the 2022 Polari Book Prize for LGBT authors.\u003cbr\u003eC+NTO is currently being adapted both for theatre, and into a television\u003cbr\u003escreenplay, and was featured on the Radio Three documentary \u003ci\u003eButch\u003c\/i\u003e. She is a co- curator\u003cbr\u003eand host of Out-Spoken Live at the Southbank Centre and tours her work\u003cbr\u003enationally and internationally from Queen Elizabeth Hall to Sydney Opera House, \u003cbr\u003efrom Australia to Brazil. She has judged several poetry and literary prizes\u003cbr\u003eincluding the Jerwood Fellowship, the Forward Prize, the Ondaatje Prize, and\u003cbr\u003ethe curator of the Koestler Awards 2023. Her novel \u003ci\u003eThe Night Alphabet \u003c\/i\u003ewas published in\u003cbr\u003eSpring of 2024 and was named both a Spectator and Guardian Book of the Year.\u003cbr\u003eHer most recent radio programme \u003ci\u003eA Young Girl's Guide to Horror \u003c\/i\u003ewas broadcast at the\u003cbr\u003eend of last year on BBC Radio Four. In 2023 and 2024 she toured the UK as a\u003cbr\u003epart of Blue Now, directed by Neil Bartlett and featuring Russell Tovey, Travis\u003cbr\u003eAlabanza and Jay Bernard. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, \u003cbr\u003eand a former Saboteur Spoken Word Artist of the Year. She was recently honoured\u003cbr\u003ewith a DIVA Award for Outstanding Contribution and named in the 2025 Pride\u003cbr\u003ePower list. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Clemson University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51720935997714,"sku":"9781638042105","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_5e80621a-9a2d-4a12-9e0b-a43e3667a2c7.jpg?v=1762941749","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/maryville-9781638042105","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}