Joelle Taylor

Joelle Taylor is a poet, playwright and author from Lancashire, in the UK.[1]

Joelle Taylor
Born1967 (age 53–54)
Lancashire, United Kingdom
OccupationPoet, performer, playwright, educator
NationalityBritish
Period1995–present
GenrePoetry, Plays, Non-Fiction
Notable awardsUK Poetry Slam Champion, 2000
Website
joelletaylor.co.uk

Career

In 2000, Taylor was UK Performance Poetry slam Champion[1] and since 2001 she has been the Artistic Director of SLAMbassadors UK, the UK's biggest youth poetry slam, run by The Poetry Society.[2][3] Her new collection, "Songs My Enemy Taught Me" was published by longtime collaborator Anthony Anaxagorou in 2017, through his company, Out-Spoken Press, and she has contributed the foreword to a children's poetry anthology published in 2017 by Otter-Barry Books.[4] She was awarded a Fellowship of the Arts in 2016, and was long listed for the Jerwood Compton Poetry Fellowship in 2017.

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,[5] 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 poetry and music club at the 100 Club in London.

Personal life

Taylor is based in London.

Political views

In December 2019, along with 42 other leading 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."[6][7]

Bibliography
Title Genre Year Publisher Notes
Naming Play 1994 N/A Debuted at Oval House Theatre[8]
Whorror Stories[1] Play 1995 N/A Debuted at Oval House Theatre[8]
Lesbians Talk Violent Relationships Non-fiction 1995 Scarlet Press Co authored by Tracy Chandler[9]
Whorror Stories II[1] Play 1996 N/A Debuted at Oval House Theatre
Lucid Johnston Play 2000 N/A Debuted at Kings Head Theatre
Ska Tissue Poetry 2011 Mother Foucault Press [3] Solo Collection
The Woman Who Was Not There Poetry 2014 Burning Eye Books Solo Collection[10]
Making Poetry Happen Collection of Essays 2015 Bloomsbury Academic Wrote chapter: From the Margins
Songs My Enemy Taught Me Poetry 2017 Out-Spoken Press Solo Collection[11]
Rising Stars Poetry Anthology 2017 Otter-Barry Books Wrote the foreword[12]
How To Be a Poet Collection of Essays 2017 Nine Arches Press Wrote chapter 14: Interrogating the Self[13]

References
  1. "Joelle Taylor". Literature | British Council. Retrieved 20 February 2017.
  2. "Joelle Taylor". The Poetry Society. Retrieved 20 February 2017.
  3. "Joelle Taylor". Apples and Snakes. Retrieved 20 February 2017.
  4. "Rising Stars – Otter – Barry Books". Otter-Barry Books. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
  5. "Joelle Taylor – poet in residence for three Herefordshire high schools". Ledbury Poetry Festival. Retrieved 20 February 2017.
  6. "Vote for hope and a decent future". The Guardian. 3 December 2019. Retrieved 4 December 2019.
  7. Proctor, Kate (3 December 2019). "Coogan and Klein lead cultural figures backing Corbyn and Labour". The Guardian. Retrieved 4 December 2019.
  8. Rapi, Nina; Chowdhry, Maya (2013). Acts of Passion: Sexuality, Gender, and Performance. Routledge. p. 24 – via Google Books. 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
  9. Taylor, Joelle; Chandler, Tracy (1995). Lesbians Talk Violent Relationships. Scarlet Press. ISBN 978-1857270327.
  10. Taylor, Joelle (2014). The Woman Who Was Not There. Burning Eye Books. ISBN 1909136395.
  11. Taylor, Joelle (2017). Songs My Enemy Taught Me. London: Out-Spoken Press. ISBN 0993103898.
  12. "Rising Stars - Otter - Barry Books". Otter-Barry Books. Retrieved 8 March 2018.
  13. "How To Be a Poet". Nine Arches Press. Retrieved 8 March 2018.
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