Dressing for the AfterlifeDressing 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

Black London

just three miles from the English-Welsh border

a constant trait in the work of Macdara Woods

several sonnets

as diverse as Hackney and Glasgow

In the New Testament

Jade Cuttle

Bob Crosby

together with Black thinkers such as

Black lives

The story takes place on a stairwell

Denys Johnson Davies