Joelle Taylor is an award-winning poet, playwright and author who toured the world with her latest collection Songs My Enemy Taught Me. She is widely anthologised, the author of 3 full poetry collections and 3 plays and is currently completing her debut book of short stories The Night Alphabet, with support from the Arts Council. Her new poetry collection C+NTO & Othered Poems will be published in June 2021 by Westbourne Press.

She founded SLAMbassadors, the UK’s national youth slam championships, for the Poetry Society in 2001 and was its Artistic Director and National Coach until 2018. She has recently been commissioned to develop her spoken word theatre show Butterfly Fist to tour throughout 2021/2022.

Joelle is the host and co-curator of Out-Spoken, the UK’s Centre’s premier poetry and music club, currently resident at the Southbank Centre Purcell Room. A Radio 4 documentary featuring poems from C+NTO and presented by Joelle, Butch, was broadcast in May 2020.

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