Dressing for the Afterlife by Maria Taylor Degna Stone and conflicting voices tumble and

and conflicting voices tumble and echo almost to the point of destruction

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You’ve come to purge my body

turning each poem into a many-angled

Linda Anderson is Professor of English and American Literature at Newcastle University where she was the founder of both the Newcastle Centre for the Literary Arts (2009) and the annual Newcastle Poetry Festival

Dressing for the Afterlife by Maria Taylor Degna Stone and conflicting voices tumble andDressing for the Afterlife is a diamond tough and tender second collection of poems from British Cypriot poet Maria Taylor, which explores love, life, and how we adapt to the passage of time. From the steely glamour of silent film star goddesses to moonlit seasons and the ghosts of other possible, parallel lives, these poems shimmy and glimmer bittersweet with humour and brio, as Taylor conjures afresh a world where Joan Crawford feistily simmers and