Joelle Taylor

Joelle Taylor is the author of 3 full collections of poetry including The Woman Who Was Not There (Burning Eye), and Songs My Enemy Taught Me (Out-Spoken Press). Her new book C+NTO & Othered Poems was published in June 2021 and won the T.S Eliot Prize for Poetry 2021. The research and writing for the collection was the subject of the Radio 4 arts documentary Butch. C+nto was named by The Telegraph, the New Statesman, and The White Review as one of their books of the year, as well as DIVA magazine’s Book of the Month, and awarded 5 stars by the Morning Star. Her poem Valentine was Highly Commended in the Forward Prize. She is a co-curator and host of Out-Spoken Live, a poetry and music club currently resident at the Southbank Centre; and a commissioning editor at Out-Spoken Press.