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Join us for a special evening of poetry to coincide with the launch of Joelle Taylor’s latest collection, Maryville.This event will be held at Dragon Hall, Norwich
Joelle Taylor
Joelle Taylor is the author of 5 collections of poetry and one novel. Her most recent collection C+NTO & Othered Poems won the 2021 T.S Eliot Prize, and the 2022 Polari Book Prize for LGBT authors. C+NTO is currently being adapted both for theatre, and into a television screenplay, and was featured on the Radio Three documentary Butch. Her novel The Night Alphabet was published in Spring of 2024 and was named both a Spectator and Guardian Book of the Year. She is a co-curator and host of Out-Spoken Live at the Southbank Centre, Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and a former Saboteur Spoken Word Artist of the Year.
James McDermott
James McDermott’s poetry collections include Father Myself (Nine Arches Press), Wild Life (Nine Arches Press; shortlisted for the East Anglian Book Award; longlisted for The New Angle Prize) and Manatomy (Burning Eye Books; longlisted for Polari’s First Book Prize). Plays published by Samuel French include Jab (Finborough Theatre; nominated for an Off West End Theatre Award for Best New Play), Time & Tide (Park Theatre/tour; nominated for an Off West End Theatre Award for Best New Play) and Rubber Ring (Pleasance Islington/tour). James has written multiple episodes of EastEnders, audio drama for Big Finish Productions and lectures in creative writing at The University of East Anglia.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Dragon Hall, Norwich, United Kingdom
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