Author: Joelle Taylor
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Hardback
Burley Fisher Books of the Year 2025
So says… Maryville is a time-travelling dyke bar and an experiment in poetic forms, including the form of a TV script in which, Taylor told DIVA magazine, ‘I want the readers to be holding the camera’. A vivid portrait of a gentrifying city that pushes out the communities that make it live (‘SOHO WATCHES LIKE A TOURIST INSTAGRAMMING APOCALYPSE') and of its griefs in the wake of violence (‘After the red turns to blue … / after officers arrest the air’), Maryville is a book to carry in your back pocket.