Joelle Taylor Explained

Joelle Taylor
Honorific Suffix:FRSL
Birth Place:Lancashire, United Kingdom
Nationality:British
Occupation:Poet, performer, playwright, educator
Period:1995–present
Genre:Poetry, plays, non-fiction

Joelle Taylor RSL (born 1967)[1] is a poet, playwright and author. She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2022.

Early life

Taylor was born in Lancashire.[2]

Career

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.[3] [4] [5] Her collection Songs My Enemy Taught Me was published by longtime collaborator Anthony Anaxagorou in 2017, through his company, Out-Spoken Press.

She has toured the UK several times as a solo poet, as well as Australia and South East Asia in 2018. She is the poet in residence at a number of schools,[6] and performs and teaches across the country. She is a Subject for Study on the OCR GCSE English curriculum. Her current emphasis is on working with groups of marginalised women globally, and on publishing their writing on her website, as well as on her online blog The Night Alphabet to coincide with her debut book of short stories of the same name. She co-curates and hosts Out-Spoken, a monthly live poetry and music night currently in long-term residence at London's Southbank Centre.[7] She is commissioning editor of Out-Spoken Press for 2021–22.[8]

Political views

In December 2019, along with 42 other cultural figures, Taylor signed a letter endorsing the Labour Party under Jeremy Corbyn's leadership in the 2019 general election. The letter stated that "Labour's election manifesto under Jeremy Corbyn's leadership offers a transformative plan that prioritises the needs of people and the planet over private profit and the vested interests of a few."[9] [10]

Personal life

Taylor is based in London.

Publications

Awards

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 2024-03-13 . Joelle Taylor Q&A: “I'd like to see dinner ladies take over parliament” . 2024-04-30 . New Statesman . en-US.
  2. Web site: Joelle Taylor. Literature British Council. 20 February 2017.
  3. Web site: Joelle Taylor. The Poetry Society. 20 February 2017.
  4. Web site: Joelle Taylor. Apples and Snakes. 20 February 2017. 21 February 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170221011114/http://applesandsnakes.org/page/84/Performance+poets/337. dead.
  5. Taylor wins the £25k T S Eliot Prize for 'blazing book of rage and light'. Wood. Heloise. The Bookseller. London. 11 January 2022. 27 June 2022.
  6. Web site: Joelle Taylor – poet in residence for three Herefordshire high schools. Ledbury Poetry Festival. 27 January 2015. 20 February 2017.
  7. Web site: Out-Spoken Southbank Centre. Southbank Centre. 2022. 27 June 2022. en.
  8. Web site: About Out-Spoken Press. 2022-01-12. Out-Spoken. en-GB.
  9. News: Vote for hope and a decent future . The Guardian. 3 December 2019. 4 December 2019.
  10. News: Proctor. Kate. Coogan and Klein lead cultural figures backing Corbyn and Labour. The Guardian. 3 December 2019. 4 December 2019.
  11. Book: Acts of Passion: Sexuality, Gender, and Performance. Rapi. Nina. Chowdhry. Maya. Routledge. 2013. 24. The collective has produced two plays to date - Naming and Whorror Stories - both written and co-directed by Joelle Taylor and premiered at the Oval House Theatre. Google Books.
  12. News: Kellaway . Kate . 2022-02-14 . C+nto & Othered Poems by Joelle Taylor review – punchy tales of lesbian life . 2024-04-30 . The Observer . en-GB . 0029-7712.
  13. News: Erskine . Wendy . 2024-02-22 . The Night Alphabet by Joelle Taylor review – relentlessly inventive . 2024-04-30 . The Guardian . en-GB . 0261-3077.
  14. Web site: 2021-10-15 . T S Eliot Prize shortlist announced . 2021-10-15 . Books+Publishing . en-AU.
  15. Web site: 2022-01-10 . Joelle Taylor wins TS Eliot poetry prize for 'blazing' C+nto & Othered Poems. Alison. Flood . 2022-01-12 . The Guardian . en.
  16. Web site: 2022-11-16 . Taylor, Zmith win 2022 Polari Prizes . 2022-11-16 . Books+Publishing . en-AU.
  17. News: Shaffi . Sarah . Knight . Lucy . 2022-07-12 . Adjoa Andoh, Russell T Davies and Michaela Coel elected to Royal Society of Literature . en-GB . The Guardian . 11 September 2023 . 0261-3077.

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