Maria Taylor
![Poetry books on a bookshelf, at least forty of them. I am not going to list them all here, but many appear in the article.](https://thefridaypoem.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Maria-Taylor-Bookshelf-320x225.jpg)
What’s on Maria Taylor’s bookshelf?
British Cypriot poet and reviewer Maria Taylor tells us which books have been important to her in her life and in her poetry
![Crowned](https://thefridaypoem.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Crowned-1-320x225.jpg)
Crowned
by Maria Taylor — Anna who’ll become my mother / enters the café. The matchmaker waves from her till. / Her nephew is thirty-eight. / Anna is thirty-one. She sees crowns of white blossom / crossing over their heads. A money dance. // Hears a baby