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

BERNARDINE EVARISTO, Booker Prize-winning author of Girl, Woman, Other

Taylor's latest takes the four butch lesbian characters we met in the T. S. Eliot-winning C+NTO & Othered Poems, and expands into a sweeping, 50-year history of lesbian culture and LGBTQ+ rights . . . What lingers is the tenderness Taylor has for her protagonists; she knows that liberation never comes without a cost

Rishi Dastidar, Guardian

Kaleidoscopic in its breath, structure and humanity, Maryville is that rare thing: a collection that is both selfless and intimate, integrally formal yet full of risk and surprise

ANTHONY JOSEPH, T. S. Eliot Prize-winning author of Sonnets for Albert

Diving deep into our collective queer history, Joelle Taylor brings back treasure, spinning traces of the bad old days into a wrong-walking love letter to all the women who went before us. Sexy, fearless – and ravishingly beautiful

NEIL BARTLETT, author of Ready to Catch Him Should He Fall

With inimitable flair, Joelle Taylor honours a woefully underrepresented identity, rendering unfairly maligned butch dykes magnificent. Maryville is a bold and exhilarating depiction of the nuances, ecstasies and agonies of lesbian life. It is also fantastically entertaining, deeply moving and very sexy. Joelle's writing is so thrilling. I loved this book

ROXY BOURDILLON, author of What A Girl Wants

One of the most powerful voices of our time is what it takes to reveal the silenced generations of lesbians . . . Unlike anything we have ever encountered. Joelle Taylor is a genius, writing poetry onto a stage it has not lived on before, making this an addictive page-turner about the queer family of the past we need to be versed in, so we can stand with triumph and gratitude when we stand on their intrepid shoulders. This book is so much bigger than a book

CACONRAD, author of Listen to the Golden Boomerang Return