TOP DOLL: Shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot 2024 a book by Karen McCarthy Woolf and Priscilla Layne. 'Extraordinarily inventive, witty, moving and profound.' Bernardine Evaristo'If you read one novel this year, let it be Top Doll. This is innovative, exquisitely crafted storytelling at its finest.' M...

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Loved Barbie? Try this mad novel about a millionaire’s drug-addicted dolls Karen McCarthy Woolf imagines what went on in the plastic heads of a 104-year-old heiress’s toys in Top Doll, a weird and wild verse novel

REVIEW at @telegraphnews.bsky.social of @karenmccarthywoolf.bsky.social's riotous, subversive #TopDoll, shortlisted for the inaugural Jhalak Poetry Prize: ‘a strange picaresque...I’ve not read anything quite like it.’

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Karen McCarthy Woolf – T.S. Eliot Writers' Notes • Poetry School Karen McCarthy Woolf talks about how she wrote her recent T.S. Eliot Prize shortlisted prose novel 'Top Doll'.

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Top Doll Karen McCarthy Woolf(Dialogue Books, 2024); hbk, £20      Infinity is an episode long     and troubling to decipher [,]                                          Dolly How might a writer work…

REVIEW at DURA of @karenmccarthywoolf.bsky.social's verse novel, shortlisted for the inaugural Jhalak Poetry Prize: #TopDoll is ‘...a blast, being outrageously, subversively, laugh-aloud funny.’

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Blue background with Jhalak Prize logo (of folded books), which image is also repeated across the background. Image of cover for 'Top Doll' with poet's name, Karen McCarthy Woolf. Text: 2025 Shortlisted Jhalak Poetry Prize in partnership with National Book Tokens (includes logo)

Blue background with Jhalak Prize logo (of folded books), which image is also repeated across the background. Image of cover for 'Top Doll' with poet's name, Karen McCarthy Woolf. Text: 'Unhinged and miraculously polyvocal... radically human, humorous and moving.' Will Harris, judge 2025 Shortlisted Jhalak Poetry Prize in partnership with National Book Tokens (includes logo)

Karen McCarthy Woolf / @karenmccarthywoolf.bsky.social is the next poet on the Jhalak Poetry Shortlist to be featured in IS&T's run-up to the Awards tomorrow. #TopDoll (Dialogue Books) is described by judge Will Harris as 'Unhinged and miraculously polyvocal... radically human, humorous and moving.'