We spoke to award-winning poet, playwright, author and educator, Joelle Taylor. Her most recent collection, C+NTO & Othered Poems (Westbourne Press, 2021) was the winner of the T.S. Eliot Award 2021. She is co-curator and host of Out-Spoken Live, a live poetry and performance club in residence at the Southbank Centre.

We discuss her new poem in our October/November issue, ‘the o god’, as well as her award-winning collection C+NTO & Othered Poems, and Joelle gives one of our listeners her best tips for finding a literary community.

Read Joelle’s poem ‘the o god’ here: https://www.thelondonmagazine.org/article/poetry-the-o-god-by-joelle-taylor/. Grab a copy of C+NTO & Othered Poems here: https://saqibooks.com/books/the-westbourne-press/cnto/.

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