Joelle Taylor by Robin Christian
Poet, author and performer
Joelle Taylor FRSL is the author of four collections of poetry and one novel and reads her work nationally and internationally from Brazil to Botswana. Her collection C+NTO & Othered Poems won the T. S. Eliot Prize, the Polari Prize, and a Saboteur Award, and is now in production as a stage play co-adapted with Charlie Josephine. Her novel The Night Alphabet was a Book of the Year in The Guardian and The Spectator. Her most recent collection MARYVILLE is out now on Bloomsbury and in the US on Clemson. She was awarded a DIVA for Outstanding Contribution to Literature in 2024.
