# Joelle Taylor

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Nina Sosanya and Joelle Taylor

Actor Nina Sosanya and prize winning poet and writer Joelle Taylor talk favourite books with Harriett. Nina chooses Sally Jones and the False Rose by Jakob Wegelius, a children's novel with a mute gorilla engineer as its protagonist. The book appeals to Nina's love of engineering, and the city of …

Marilyn Monroe at 100

On what would have been her 100th birthday, we look at the enduring popularity of Marilyn Monroe, with film journalist and fan Kim Morgan and reviewer Angie Errigo Sathnam Sanghera talks about the meaning of George Michael. Jazz legend and saxophonist Courtney Pine talks about his career, forty ye…

Have A Kind Word With: Joelle Taylor

“Do the thing that’s instinctive to you.” I chat with TS Eliot Prize winning poet and author Joelle Taylor. Our discussion goes on the most brilliant tangents and tributaries about analog creativity, empathy, lesbian representation - particularly on her current tour of her stunning collection “Mar…

Ep 12: Maureen's Secret Phone Notes / Death is inevitable, slam poetry, ambassador of Milton Keynes

Ready to roulette a stranger's notes app? Today I'm joined by Maureen Onwunali, a Dublin-born Nigerian poet who is a lot of fun. And national slam poetry champion twice! We scroll, we stop, and we reveal what's hidden away in the swamp that is our notes app. Let's listen! Secret Phone Notes Insta…

Wayne Holloway-Smith: RABBITBOX

Rabbitbox is Wayne Holloway-Smith’s first foray into long-form narrative, but retains the originality, compression and power which characterize his poetry collections (most recently Love Minus Love, shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot prize). Exploring a mother and her young son’s reactions to an all-co…

A Safe Space to Be Dangerous

Joelle Taylor joins host Hannah Lowe to discuss the heterogeneity of queer culture, female eroticism without the male gaze, poems as movie trailers, and more. Joelle reads her poem “Psalm” and an excerpt from Danez Smith’s poem “summer, somewhere.”

Hastings queer history - 014

Tash went along to Hastings for a tour of Lemons, Laws and Secret Doors — an exhibition made by a local queer collective all about their history. There was so much to discover! Tash and Adam are running a writing workshop at Joelle Taylor’s Maryville salon this weekend - tickets here! Listen to ad-…

LIVE at Out and Wild with Ayse and Queer Girls Book Club

Meet Ayse, founder of Queer Girls Book Club, defender of the heated debate, and dyke of the people. In this live recording from the amazing Out and Wild festival, Ayse tells me about why running a queer book club is not just about putting LGBTQIA+ titles on your reading list, all the work she is do…

'Maryville' & Queer World-Building (w/ Joelle Taylor) - The Loudcast

The Loudcast returns for a new season following the Loud Poets Grand Slam Final! This episode, RJ Hunter talks to author, poet and titan of spoken-word, Joelle Taylor, about her latest collection 'Maryville' and it's currently touring stage adaptation, as well as what people can expect from her up…