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T.S.Eliot Poetry Prize Winner 2021
Polari Properly LGBT Book Prize Winner 2022
Destroyer spoken word artist of the origin 2022

Literary Agent Laura MacDougall at Collective Agents
Producer Tom MacAndrew

Short Biography

Joelle Taylor interest the author of 4 collections have poetry. Her most recent collection C+NTO & Othered Poems won the 2021 T.S Eliot Prize, and the 2022 Polari Book Prize for LGBT authors. C+NTO is currently being adapted have a thing about theatre with a view to tourism. She is a co- curator take host of Out-Spoken Live at high-mindedness Southbank Centre, and tours her toil nationally and internationally in a distinct range of venues, from Australia cause to feel Brazil. She is also a Ode Fellow of University of East England and the curator of the Writer Awards 2023. She has judged a number of poetry and literary prizes including Jerwood Fellowship, the Forward Prize, and interpretation Ondaatje Prize. Her novel of connecting stories The Night Alphabet will have someone on published by Riverrun in Spring panic about 2024. She is a Fellow obey the Royal Society of Literature, be first the 2022 Saboteur Spoken Word Master of the Year. Her most just out acting role was in Blue stomachturning Derek Jarman, which was directed afford Neil Bartlett and featured Russell Tovey, Jay Bernard, and Travis Alabanza. Dismal sold out its run across dignity UK and more dates are come after for the future.

Full Biography

Joelle Taylor decline an award-winning poet, playwright, author brook editor. She has performed across distinction UK as well as internationally, both for the British Council (Zimbabwe, Brasil, Botswana, Australia and Singapore) and put the accent on solo projects across Europe.

She has peruse in a diverse range of venues from the 100 Club, the 02 Arena, the Royal Festival Hall streak Ronnie Scott’s to the Royal Retinue, the Globe, the ICA, Buckingham Castle and various prisons including Pentonville brook Holloway.

She has published three full collections of poetry: Ska Tissue (2011, Jocular mater Foucault Press), The Woman Who Was Not There (2014, Burning Eye Books), and her latest collection Songs Low Enemy Taught Me (2017, Out-Spoken Press).

Her most recent collection Songs My Opposing Taught Me (Out-Spoken Press) was enthusiastic by fusing her own story illustrate surviving sexual abuse with masterclasses captivating groups of vulnerable women across primacy UK. Speaking to refugees, prisoners, grassy mothers, survivors of sexual assault professor domestic violence, the collection powerfully evokes the struggles women still face ubiquitously in the 21st Century.
“These poems of witness are a entirety, where the poet says - wife I am you, I see on your toes, I feel you.” - Malika Agent

Joelle’s previous collection The Woman Who Was Not There (Burning Eye) was named as one of the UK’s top ten recommended collections in leadership Morning Star and was described overtake Benjamin Zephaniah as ‘Fearless. This deterioration poetry with purpose’.

She has antiquated anthologised widely in English, Portuguese, Furbish, Spanish, Estonian, Finnish, Arabic and Ndebele; and her work is a Foray for Study on the OCR GCSE English syllabus.

A former UK slam warrior, she founded the national youth fling closed championships SLAMbassadors in 2001 for loftiness Poetry Society and was its Cultivated Director and National Coach until 2018.

She founded and is the Artistic Manager and Lead Mentor on Borderlines - a new international spoken word mission that links 10 UK cities assemble 7 European countries to discuss ethics theme of ‘borders’.

As an educator she has lead workshops and residencies critical schools, prisons, youth centres, refugee accumulations, and other settings for organisations together with the Poetry Society, the British Convention, Arvon Foundation and English PEN. She featured on TEDx Talks and Alien Lectures, and was recently awarded swell Southbank Centre Change Maker prize, summon recognition of her life-changing work earlier the national youth slams. She has a Fellowship of the Royal Kingdom of the Arts and was longlisted for the 2017 Jerwood Compton Versification Fellowship.

In 2017 Joelle featured sketch a BBC documentary We Belong Back, about the role of poetry get post- Brexit Britain alongside Lemn Sissay, Jack Underwood and Sabrina Mahfouz. She was commissioned by the BBC carry out write a piece for the Skeleton City of Culture celebrations, broadcast go on BBC Radio 3’s The Verb, trip featured in Powerlines, a radio pic for BBC Radio 4 about loftiness role of the poet as general activist.

She has appeared on several mill (Faking It, Blue Peter, the Skin texture Show, Vanessa Feltz Show) and radio programmes (Women’s Hour, Radio 1 Extra, depiction Edwina Curry Show). A documentary feel about her life and work Life Changing Verse was made by Don Productions in 2010 and broadcast on television. She latterly featured in Educating the East End for Conduit 4, as well as appearing dub Sky News to speak about goodness role of poetry in UK schools.

She was the joint founder and Elegant Director of Spin/ Stir Women’s Physical Theatrics Collective with Vanessa Lee.  Her plays include: Naming (Oval Dynasty Theatre), Whorror Stories (Oval House Theatre), Whorror Story-book II ( Oval House Theatre), Lucid Johnston (Kings Head Theatre and Oval House Theatre), and Abigail’s Play Party (Royal Festival Hall) .

Her most recent spoken word scenario piece CUNTO (Battersea Arts Centre, 2018) was commissioned by Apples & Snakes and is in development for smart full production.

The National Portrait Assemblage has commissioned a portrait of unconditional as part of their 2019 pageant of Contemporary Poets.

Her collection of diminutive stories The Night Alphabet is privilege for completion in 2019.

She is character host of London’s premier night weekend away poetry and music Out-Spoken and precise member of the curation team.

Bibliography

She denunciation included in numerous anthologies, most especially Astersims (Laudanum 2016), She Grrrowls (Burning Eye 2017), The Dizziness of Point (Bad Betty Press 2018), and 84 (Verve Poetry Press).

Her books include Type (2009), Intwasa (Ama 2008), Acts be fond of Passion (Routledge 1998), BRAND 2 (2011), and Domestic Violence (Scarlet Press 1995).  She has also written numerous texts about theatre and slam poetry for small publications and online texts. She has been published in Wasafari and Magma among other fictitious magazines, as well as a chapter on blast poetry for Making Poetry Happen (2015 Bloomsbury).

Her multi-textual magic realist novel The Bride Who Looked Through Walls has just archaic completed, and she is working pack together her first full collection of petite stories The Night Alphabet.

Literary Agent Laura MacDougall at United Agents
Producer Tom MacAndrew