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Poet & Author. Books include C+nto & Othered Poems, winner TS Eliot Prize & The Night Alphabet// Agent: LMacdougall @unitedagents .co.uk // Events: @tommacandrew

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joelle taylor

1 year

My debut novel The Night Alphabet is available to pre order now. I’ve waited years to say that. This is the story of the secret language between women (and times, and geographies), the quantum mechanics of belonging. Please grab one now 🙏

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The Night Alphabet by Joelle Taylor | Waterstones

Buy The Night Alphabet by Joelle Taylor from Waterstones today! Click and Collect from your local Waterstones or get FREE UK delivery on orders over £25.

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3 years

I haven’t been able to read through and respond to all the messages and emails yet but wanted to thank you all for your support. It’s really moving. I will be forever grateful to @tseliotprize and the Judges @CarolineBirdUK Glynn Maxwell, and Zaffar Kunial Thanks so much 🙏

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I just keep pressing quote and not knowing what to say. It’s the best day of my professional life. This is for all the wrong walking women, the butches & bois and all those struggling to find their own bodies. Thank you @SaqiBooks for believing in this strange little golden book

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Saqi Books

3 years

We are thrilled to announce that C+nto & Othered Poems by @JTaylorTrash has been shortlisted for the prestigious @tseliotprize ! We’re so proud to publish this phenomenal collection, and can't wait for more readers to discover Joelle’s electrifying writing. Well done Joelle!

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Humbled to see that my little gold book has been named as one ⁦ @guardian ⁩ top books of 2022. Thanks everyone for giving me the kind of year writer’s only dream of.

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This is an absolute dream. Friends will know I’ve been working on The Night Alphabet for the last 4 years and know she’s ready to meet you all. The Bookseller - Rights - Riverrun seizes T S Eliot Prize-winner Taylor’s ‘electrifying’ debut novel

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Riverrun seizes T S Eliot Prize-winner Taylor’s ‘electrifying’ debut novel

Riverrun has signed The Night Alphabet, award-winning poet Joelle Taylor’s “electrifying” debut novel.

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6 months

Absolutely thrilled. ⁦⁦ @guardian ⁩ Book of the Day: The Night Alphabet by Joelle Taylor review – relentlessly inventive | Fiction | The Guardian

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The Night Alphabet by Joelle Taylor review – relentlessly inventive

In the poet’s dizzying first novel, one woman’s tattoos are portals to tales of female oppression and resistance across space and time

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5 years

I’ll be taking a year’s tenure as Editor of Out-Spoken Press from Sep 2020, with a focus on new works from women. Submission window is open until Dec

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Out-Spoken Press

@Outspoken_Press

5 years

We have a rather big announcement regarding next year’s publishing. 🗣

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2 years

I became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature yesterday, signing the book with Fellows from 2020-2022 with TS Eliot’s beautiful fountain pen. Seemed rude not to

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Royal Society of Literature

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💫 Lemn Sissay ( @lemnsissay ) 💫 Cherry Smyth 💫 Charlie Swinbourne 💫 Joelle Taylor #FRSL #FRSL2022 📰

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During what has been one of the most challenging periods I can remember, this. Thanks @SabotageReviews I have a smile.

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Sabotage Reviews

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2 years

SABOTEUR AWARDS 2022 - THE RESULTS! The winner for best spoken word performer is… Joelle Taylor! Huge congratulations! #SabAwards22

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4 years

The irony of making GCSE poetry optional/ dropping it at the precise moment in history when poets have unlimited time to engage with schools and students and the technology to achieve it 1/3

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9 months

I will be launching my debut novel on February 16 next year, in a performed reading in Queen Elizabeth Hall directed by Neil Bartlett, and hosted by Russell Tovey. Joelle Taylor: The Night Alphabet

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3 years

As we know several municipalities in Poland have been declared LGBT Free Zones and queer books removed from schools. I’ve been contacted by someone who is trying to counter the misrepresentation through founding an LGBT library - and they’re looking for UK poets/ authors 1/2

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Some news…

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📯 T. S. Eliot Prize-winning author and performer Joelle Taylor plays Puck in A Midsummer Night’s Dream @operahollandpk ! Joelle is the author of 4 poetry collections & the recipient of numerous awards for her writing & spoken word. 🗓️ 29 June-1 July 🎫ℹ️

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3 years

Very grateful for this review on Valentine’s Day in ⁦ @guardian ⁩ They even print the full poem 🙏

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C+nto & Othered Poems by Joelle Taylor review – punchy tales of lesbian life

The winner of the TS Eliot prize offers a rallying cry for gay unity amid prejudice and death

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3 years

Very very pleased to have been Highly Commended in @ForwardPrize and to be included in the Forward Book of Poetry 2022. It’s the first time anything I’ve written out of a performance context has received any recognition.

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Forward Prizes

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Congratulations to our Highly Commended poets, who all feature in the Forward Book of Poetry 2022! Do not miss this incredible anthology - out now!

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Right then.

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1 year

Hello Monday 😍 She’s here, ready for final proof edits #thenightalphabet

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9 months

A beautiful day to record the audio of my debut novel The Night Alphabet. Here we go then #TheNightAlphabet

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2 years

Fucking YES!! Trapped on a train but dancing inside. Big huge thanks to the judges, and massive shout out to all the books & the phenomenal @polarisalon

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Polari Prize

2 years

We’re excited to announce our 2022 Polari Book Prize shortlist! #PolariPrize #PolariPrize2022 The Origins of Iris - @bethklewis Valentine Ackland - Frances Bingham C+nto & Othered Poems - @JTaylorTrash Address Book - @NeilVBartlett Rocksong - @DrNourrr

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I began working for ⁦ @PoetrySociety ⁩ in 2000, and for many of those years sat downstairs next to the editor(s) of Poetry Review. 24 years later, a sample of a new crown of sonnets is included in the Spring Issue, something I never imagined would happen.

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4 years

Fatima’s next job should be in the resistance.

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1 year

This was both life & career changing. It brought adventure, wonder, and heart break in equal measure. When I say everything changed, I really mean it

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T. S. Eliot Prize

1 year

It's the T. S. Eliot Prize's 30th anniversary this year & we're celebrating past winning collections! Joelle Taylor won the T.S. Eliot Prize 2021 for C+nto & Othered Poems. Joelle has reflected for us on winning the Prize - read her full piece now:

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3 years

It’s our anniversary - here we are being married by my magical friend and esteemed man of letters ⁦ @adamkammerling ⁩ We didn’t want anything too big. Just a lifetime.

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I still can’t believe this is happening…

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Laura Macdougall (she/her) 🏳️‍🌈

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Stunning proof copies of @JTaylorTrash ’s equally stunning debut novel, THE NIGHT ALPHABET, out from @riverrunbooks in Feb 2024. This novel is a game-changer. Don’t miss it!

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3 years

Hope to see some of you as I venture out with C+NTO & Othered Poems on a tentative tour. The big date is Oct 7 when I’ll finally launch the book, old school dyke bar style, at the BookClub in Shoreditch. More info to follow when I update my website 🙏📙

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6 months

It’s publication day - very thankful to @theskinnymag for this 5 star review at my breakfast table. I began writing The Night Alphabet in 2018 so it has been with me during some of the most turbulent times in my adult life. Tomorrow night, I’ll let go of its hand

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The Skinny

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"Deeply connected to the way women used to tell stories, with words and woven images" Only one more day until THE NIGHT ALPHABET by @JTaylorTrash is published by @QuercusBooks - Read @tweetsanor 's ★★★★★ review!

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She’s here…

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2 years

I can hear all the butches & bois in the Maryville bar banging their pint glasses, all of us thrilled that C+nto & Othered Poems is longlisted for the #RSLOndaatjePrize 🙏✊ #butch

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Royal Society of Literature

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Delighted to announce the longlist for the '22 #RSLOndaatje Prize, awarded to a book (fiction/non-fiction/poetry) which best evokes the spirit of a place 📚 Congrats to all 2⃣1⃣ longlisted authors 🎉 📰 📅 Shortlist 20 April, Winner 4 May #RSLOndaatje

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And then it went dark. Full homophobic abuse and phones out to film my response. Suddenly - out of nowhere - two extraordinary women appeared and chased them off, matching their rage. Thanks women, whoever you are. That meant everything. 2/2

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5 years

On a train that has halted between Walthamstow & Liverpool Street due to ‘a number of passengers trespassing on the line’. Is this #ExtinctionRebellionLondon ? Id rather be late for my meeting than the planet. Quietly rooting for you

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9 months

Oh no. Not Ben. What a fucking year. Rest in Poetry, Benjamin Zephaniah 💔

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3 years

‘Art is where what we survive survives’ Kaveh Akbar

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1 year

Really honoured by this. Bit gonsmacked

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Quercus Books

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So proud to see author @JTaylorTrash featured in @Independent 's 2023 Pride List! Huge congrats Joelle! 🥳

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3 years

I don’t know about you, but I’m ready to start believing again. Today, I’ve begun planning a live UK tour to launch my new collection C+NTO, which is released in June. I don’t know how far I’ll get, but I’m walking forward anyway. I hope you’ll join me.

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4 years

My new book is called C+NTO, a set of cantos looking at the experiences of butch women & the dyke underground of the 90’s. The first part reimagines Soho and all the old bars, cruising grounds, & squats in vitrine in a museum, the second on memoir. The third culminates in a

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‘They are literally murdering us’: poet Joelle Taylor on bringing the LGBTQ+ community together | Poetry | The Guardian

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‘They are literally murdering us’: poet Joelle Taylor on bringing the LGBTQ+ community together

She’s been marginalised and slapped in the street – but Taylor’s passionate and nostalgic poems about butch lesbian subculture just won the TS Eliot prize. Can they also heal the divisions over...

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I’m writing an article on ‘the recent rise of spoken word’ - I know, know. I can set my watch by ‘poetry is the new rock n roll’. Nevertheless: what nights exist across the UK? What is often omitted from these think pieces? What poets are neglected? All comments appreciated

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4 years

In case you missed it you can listen again here BBC Radio 4 - Butch

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BBC Radio 4 - Butch

Joelle Taylor celebrates 'being butch' and asks whether it's an identity with a future.

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7 months

Five years in the thinking and conjuring but she’s finally here. Join me for a staged reading on Feb 16 in Queen Elizabeth Hall 8pm of my debut novel The Night Alphabet. QueerFuturism meets feminist magic realism… ⁦ @riverrunbooks ⁩ ⁦⁦ @southbankcentre ⁩

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3 years

Really good to see this poem being one of the winners of the ⁦ @PoetrySociety ’s⁩ prestigious #FoyleYoungPoets Giovanni Rose: Tottenham teenager wins poetry award - BBC News

I love but I hate my home: Poet’s ode to Tottenham

Teenager Giovanni Rose won an international competition with his poem Welcome to Tottenham.

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3 years

Bloody hell. I’m off work for a few days with laryngitis but I still managed a butch squeak of pure joy when I read this. Thank you @BernardineEvari from all the bois 🙏

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Saqi Books

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Thank you to @BernardineEvari for choosing the wonderful C+nto by @JTaylorTrash for her @NewStatesman Book of the Year!

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3 years

I’ve been holding on to this one since last year, but finally I can announce that I’ll be reading as part of Simon Armitage: The Laureate’s Library Tour ⁦ @britishlibrary ⁩ on April 30 along with ⁦ @theresa_lola ⁩ livestream available for one night

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2 years

Taking C+NTO in the road. First stop Australia: Adelaide Writers Week March 5-8, Melbourne Wheeler Centre March 9, and Sydney Opera House March 12 & 13. #Finally

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4 years

Thanks to @ace_national I am able to start the Research & Development stage of #ButterflyFist (CUNTO) so that we’ll be ready to begin work properly when the apocalypse is over. Very, very relieved.

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3 years

Watching the screen tests from all the butches who’ve applied for a role in the stage version of C+NTO is deeply, deeply moving. My blood is wakening. So many of us. So little space for us.

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3 years

C+nto & Othered Poems is one of the Telegraph's best books of 2021, and given a lengthy insightful 4* review by @TATFS I've been drinking prosecco (butchly) ever since

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6 years

Today I leanred from Irish poet Stephen Murray that of the 6 executed by the English following the Easter Uprising, 5 were poets. Remember how powerful poetry is. More than your book, more than your tour, more than this tweet. Ask yourself now: how brave is your poetry?

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4 years

The irony of dismantling poetic voice and thought at the precise time in history when a student needs to investigate their feelings, and express them. Poetry teaches radical creative thinking. Must be why 3/3

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3 years

Wonderful to see work from @seanehewitt on my overground from Wood Street to Hackney

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2 years

It’s been a truly phenomenal tour of Australia so far, not least because of 2 shows at Sydney Opera House, the literal stuff of dreams. But today has been tough: fever, headache, extreme tiredness. The lateral flow says it’s not Covid, thankfully, so i can carry on but aaahhh

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4 years

Just checking everyone working freelance knows they can now make another claim for self employment support. It isn’t as well advertised as the two previous awards, but only takes 10 mins to complete.

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4 years

The irony of cutting poetry at the precise time in history when collective trauma makes long form reading more difficult 2/3

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4 years

Every day I wake up, wash, & sit down to work on my novel. I‘ve one month to go. Starting tomorrow I’m going to begin sharing some research I use, passages from the book, and how a blank page is both a wall and a window. Then I‘ll eat my own face with a flourish #TheNightAlphabet

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6 years

Just been stopped at the station and thanked by the songwriter for Rudimental for inspiring him when he was a kid. Wow. I even remember his gig 15 years ago, when we took over Hackney Empire with SLAMbassdors. These small things we do can have big endings.

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2 years

Flying back in a couple of hours from the most overwhelming gig in Rome, reading The Wasteland and Cunto back to back. What a trip…

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6 months

We’re taking the staged reading of The Night Alphabet on a tour of big venues across the UK, with dates in Scotland, Wales, and music festivals to be added. Hope to see you there

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7 months

Curating the Koestler Exhibition was one of the greatest honours of my career⁦ @KoestlerArts ⁩ Poet Joelle Taylor: ‘Collectivity is the antidote to cultural fascism’

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Poet Joelle Taylor: ‘Collectivity is the antidote to cultural fascism’

Taylor on her exhibition of art made by prisoners—and why the creative industries are becoming even more exclusionary

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1 year

Send your submissions in for a chance to read your work in this stunning location, alongside generous cash prizes. If poetry had a home it might well be on this island

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4 years

I’ve been working on this arts doc all year. It follows me as I prepare to perform #ButterflyFist for ⁦ @polarisalon ⁩ at #Heaven & looks at the meaning and language of masculine women, the archetypal Butch, fused with with poem excerpts & interviews

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BBC Radio 4 - Butch

Joelle Taylor celebrates 'being butch' and asks whether it's an identity with a future.

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5 years

Two asthma attacks in 24 hours has finally persuaded me to stop smoking. I’ve been wearing a nicotine patch all day, pretending I’m still on the plane. I just need to remember how utterly shit dry drowning is, and I’ll get there.

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2 years

I am thrilled to have this opportunity to curate inmates’s artwork in the annual Koestler Awards exhibition, a real chance for the unseen among us to claim visibility

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Koestler Arts

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📢Have you heard?📢 @JTaylorTrash will be curating our 2023 exhibition at @southbankcentre ! As a previous Koestler Awards judge, Joelle is very familiar with the high standard of work we receive each year & we can't wait to see her concept develop✨ More details to come...

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4 years

I’ve just heard that Butch has made it in to #PickoftheWeek on @BBCRadio4 Absolutely delighted.

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4 years

In case you missed it you can listen again here BBC Radio 4 - Butch

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9 months

On a train to Edinburgh alongside every football fan on the planet - but at least I’m heading toward this sold out show, with a promise of a different cocktail tailored to each poem. Got a feeling I’ll be in need of a drink after 5 hours of football chants…

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@HHawkOfficial @IAMKP @InuaEllams @meenakandasamy @SeanWaiKeung @theskinnymag @kimmoorepoet @IonaLeepoetry @CWilsonPoet @jeremycorbyn @orbooks @pat_err @The_SiO_Project @eadaoinlynch @Inga_Dale @cathdrake @mcdizraeli @timtimtmi Cocktail Hour with @JTaylorTrash : SOLD OUT Ready for a festival Saturday cocktail? We can’t think of better company for it than the legendary Joelle Taylor. Ruma mixologists will shake a heady mix of drinks, while Joelle offers some stirring words to accompany each one.

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4 years

I‘m spending today judging this year’s #KoestlerPrize - an award for art works, including poetry, created in prison. Usually I’m astounded by the strength of entries. This year feels even more poignant. I can’t imagine what life has been like for inmates over the last 6 months

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It’s getting very real…

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Koestler Arts

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𝗜𝗡𝗦𝗧𝗔𝗟𝗟 𝗜𝗡 𝗣𝗥𝗢𝗚𝗥𝗘𝗦𝗦 We’re excited to open the doors to this incredible display of work by people in the UK’s criminal justice system, curated by @jtaylortrash , this Thursday🤩 📅2 November – 17 December 📍 @southbankcentre 🔗

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4 years

We can finally announce the 2021/22 poets who I’ll be working with over the next year or so. Stunned by every one of them. I’m taking over the reins of @Anthony1983 for one year, and publishing women/non binary only. It’s a great honour indeed to follow in Anthony’s footsteps.

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Out-Spoken Press

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4 years

📣 BIG news! Thrilled to announce our 🔵2021 PUBLISHING PROGRAMME🔵 & to welcome these very special poets, under the 2021 Editorship of Joelle Taylor: 🔵 @lisaluxx_ 🔵 @rachelkayinn 🔵 @SafiyaKamaria 🔵 @Alice_frecknall 🔵 @SarahFPoetry Read more here:

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Waiting for my stage call time, and outside my hotel window a man is performing Johnny Cash songs so eerily well that I just burst out crying 😂 It’s going to be one of those gigs,people. Everything is so moving to me right now. Streets, gigs, humans. All alive. All here.

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2 years

Just received my monthly bill from @edfenergy which is usually £30 pm maximum. This month’s bill is for £1085. I live alone in a one bedroom flat, no hearing used yet. Has anyone else seen such a dramatic hike? Obviously I’m one of thousands who will now be unable to pay.

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9 months

On Feb 16 we’ll be launching my debut novel in Queen Elizabeth Hall, in a stage adaption directed by Neil Bartlett, and in conversation with Russell Tovey - thinking about queer futurism, feminism, the under edge of things. Tix in the link

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What's on | Southbank Centre

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4 years

One of the greatest challenges in writing is acknowledging when you have taken a wrong turn. I’ve been walking along the wrong path for days now. Time to walk back home.

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4 years

I’m very exited to take up a residency with @wowfest and the #WritersBloc

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Writing on the Wall

4 years

We're excited to announce our next Writer on the Bloc is.... Award-winning poet, playwright, author and editor Joelle Taylor! 🎉🎉 @JTaylorTrash will be our Writer on the Bloc from 16th November for three weeks ⬇️⬇️

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2 years

Finally, a space for the performed and the published, side by side

@ForwardPrizes

Forward Prizes

2 years

The illustrious Joelle Taylor will be chairing this year's #ForwardPrizes for Best Single Poem, written and performed! "This new category is great news for the wide range of poetics on offer, and will undoubtedly revive a scene damaged by the pandemic." @JTaylorTrash

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1 year

Calling all Brighton butches, dykes, queens, and queers 🏳️‍🌈

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3 years

I absolutely love this poem

@ForestPoets

Forest Poets 💬🎤📚💙

3 years

#WFPoetryComp Second prize: @ALoulli “A Woman Walks into A Marriage” 'The first time I made you laugh I was naked when I was supposed to be dressed or dressed when I was supposed to be naked I forget...'

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A night of love amidst the horror. Thank you to everyone who participated, attended, and donated. You made a difference. And special gratitude to someone who doesnt like being thanked for things like this, the poet who dreamed this into being @Anthony1983

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2 years

New poem in the Telegraph newsletter and in print on Saturday

@TelegraphBooks

Telegraph Books

@TelegraphBooks

2 years

Read a brand-new poem by 2022 TS Eliot Prize-winner @JTaylorTrash in today's Culture Newsletter. Sign up for free here:

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2 years

Cannot wait

@BradfordLitFest

Bradford Literature Festival

@BradfordLitFest

2 years

Two award-winning poets, one intimate and career-spanning conversation - don't miss this chat with @Malikabooker and @JTaylorTrash as they discuss how their work has uplifted marginalised voices: #BLF22

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10 months

Open until December 17, free to visit

@KoestlerArts

Koestler Arts

10 months

𝐈𝐍 𝐂𝐀𝐒𝐄 𝐎𝐅 𝐄𝐌𝐄𝐑𝐆𝐄𝐍𝐂𝐘 is now open!🎨 We’re so excited to share this thought-provoking exhibition with you all, curated by @jtaylortrash ✨ 📅Until 17 December 📍 @southbankcentre 🔗 📸Stephen Pover

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5 years

We’re continuing our @southbankcentre residency for another year. Thanks to all of you who keep coming, whose support helps us to curate as innovative programme of poetry and music as we can. Big up 2020

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Out-Spoken

5 years

We’re thrilled to announce Out-Spoken’s residency @southbankcentre has been extended to 2020 and beyond. This means another packed program featuring the country’s most loved poets and musicians. Masterclasses will continue as usual too. Tickets from Jan onwards are on SB site. 🍾

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2 years

Blue Now dates, directed by Neil Bartlett and featuring Russell Tovey, Travis Alabanza, Jay Bernard, and me in an honouring and celebration of an exceptional artist, #derekjarman

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3 years

I’m really moved by this review of C+NTO from the poetry editor @TheTLS @CamilleRalphs_ To think that someone could spend so much time sifting words and meaning from a book I’ve written is astounding. 🙏

@CamilleRalphs_

Camille Ralphs

@CamilleRalphs_

3 years

I've reviewed Joelle Taylor's C+nto, which is really rather good, for @TheTLS :

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3 years

Yeah no lie, that was one of the very best gigs of my life. It’s all down to @MattAbbottPoet who guided me through upsetting travel on to a warm and subversive stage. So bloody grateful. I know this all such a huge risk in more than one way, but tonight was my very good friend.

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1 year

Link to preorder. I feel like I’ve been writing this novel since I was a child

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The Night Alphabet by Joelle Taylor

Pre-order now:

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joelle taylor

5 years

Another beautiful morning in Koh Tao, Thailand. It’s our 13 year anniversary so we saved for 2 years to get this stunning view. This is where my heart lives. (My liver is in Bangkok)

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3 years

She’s here! C+NTO & Othered Poems. #lgbt #pride #butch #counterculture

@SaqiBooks

Saqi Books

3 years

C+nto & Othered Poems by @JTaylorTrash is out TODAY!🎉 Part-memoir & part-conjecture, C+nto is a powerful exploration of sexuality, gender & self expression within the butch counterculture. We're so proud to publish this bold & brilliant collection💛 #Pride

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2 years

Im honoured to be chairing the judging panel for the very first @ForwardPrizes Performed Poem category. A long awaited move from a major prize that we must all support. Submissions are open

@ForwardPrizes

Forward Prizes

2 years

For the first time this year the #ForwardPrizes have a fourth category - Best Single Poem-Performed! To find out more, check out the entry guidance on our website:

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10 months

I had a stunning night repping @KoestlerArts Voices from Prison at the Southbank - but then i went home. On the way a car of men pulled up and at first just mocked me, so as most women do, i kept it light and laughed along with their frankly dim jokes about me.1/2

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2 years

Im absolutely overjoyed that C+nto & Othered Poems has been longlisted for this year’s @PolariPrize which celebrates LGBT writing. Congrats to all the wonderful fellow nominees 🙌

@SaqiBooks

Saqi Books

2 years

We are so thrilled for @JTaylorTrash , C+nto has been longlisted for this year’s @PolariPrize amongst an incredible selection of emerging and established LGBTQ+ writers! If you haven’t read it, head to our website to get a copy!

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4 months

To hold Eurovision while bombing a refugee camp was something straight out of The Hunger Games. Very proud of the London LGBT community who boycotted Eurovision on mass.

@Outspoken_Press

Out-Spoken Press

@Outspoken_Press

4 months

Fuck a Eurovision Idk when/how the family will be able use £ now but if you can donate to Haia please do

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5 years

The last couple of years of touring has finally caught up with me, and I’ve been pinballing from one infection to another. Im going to take a bit of time out to rest, reflect & write - and slow down enough for my body to catch up with my brain

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3 years

The full @tseliotprize readings @southbankcentre

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joelle taylor

11 months

What a list! Huge congratulations to all the shortlisted, and a special shout out to Fran Lock & Joe Carrick Varty ⁦ @JoeCarrickVarty ⁩ both of whom have been published by ⁦ @Outspoken_Press ⁩ Really thrilled for everyone

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Shortlisted TS Eliot prize poets speak to a disrupted world

The 10 listed collections range from ‘zany intimacy’ by Sharon Olds to explorations of Black identity from Ishion Hutchinson and Jason Allen-Paisant

www.theguardian.com

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4 years

Just think of all those lgbt+ kids growing up believing they belong. Thank you Scotland

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Val McDermid

4 years

It would have transformed my life. I'd have discovered there were such creatures as lesbians in my bewildered teens. It's so exhilarating to know it will change other lives -- not just for LGBTQ people but also for those whose hate comes from ignorance.

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The comments though 😬 Calm down, it’s only your planet love

@JustStop_Oil

Just Stop Oil

4 months

🖋️ WRITERS SUPPORT JUST STOP OIL 🔥 Poet, author and performer @JTaylorTrash reads the poem 'Earth's Answers' by William Blake in support of Just Stop Oil. ✈️ Airports will be declared sites of civil resistance this summer. Take action with us —

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A rarely read poem VITRINE from C*NTO for the Koestler Exhibition. Curating IN CASE OF EMERGENCY has been one of my highlights as a human and as an artist. What a privilege.

@southbankcentre

Southbank Centre

@southbankcentre

8 months

Joelle Taylor ( @JTaylorTrash ) delivers a powerful reading of Vitrine, ii from her TS Eliot Prize-winning C+nto & Othered Poems ‘Display cases distinct as dominos, how we all rely on one another.’ @natpoetrylib @KoestlerArts

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5 years

WHO IS THE NEW POET LAUREATE? Sorry to shout, but no one’s answering

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joelle taylor

6 months

Returning to my spiritual home of Bristol with the live version of The Night Alphabet novel ❤️

@LyraFest

Lyra Bristol Poetry

6 months

For the first time in Bristol, @JTaylorTrash performs a staged reading from her debut novel The Night Alphabet, directed by Neil Bartlett. Get Your Tickets here:

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Thanks so much to Marie Claire magazine for naming The Night Alphabet one of the Best Books 2024: The Best Page Turners To Curl Up With | Marie Claire UK

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We've found the best books of 2024 to curl up with

Must-reads and page-turners chosen by a book-obsessed writer

www.marieclaire.co.uk

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1 year

The most challenging role I have ever played, amid the most breathtaking actors, opera singers and orchestra. I promise you, it is pure magic…

@figureensemble

Figure

@figureensemble

1 year

📯 T. S. Eliot Prize-winning author and performer Joelle Taylor plays Puck in A Midsummer Night’s Dream @operahollandpk ! Joelle is the author of 4 poetry collections & the recipient of numerous awards for her writing & spoken word. 🗓️ 29 June-1 July 🎫ℹ️

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The most difficult part of this job is keeping going, keeping positive, when you feel inside out

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