The Night Alphabet: An evening of live readings with poet Joelle Taylor
Foyle Rooms
Join T. S. Eliot & Polari Prize award-winning poet Joelle Taylor for live readings from her debut novel 'The Night Alphabet' and an in-conversation with OSE Associate Alex Vellis.
Joelle Taylor is the author of 4 collections of poetry. 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 for theatre with a view to touring. She is a co-curator and host of Out-Spoken Live at the Southbank Centre, and tours her work nationally and internationally in a diverse range of venues, from Australia to Brazil.
Set across geographies and timespans, The Night Alphabet is a dazzlingly bold and original work, a deep investigation into human nature and violence against women.
This event is a LGBTQIA+ centred space, and invites Kent-based, working class writers to join the conversation.
If you’re unable to attend after booking – we ask that you cancel your ticket via Eventbrite and free up a space for another participant. If this event is fully booked and you would like to be placed on a waiting list, or you have any other queries, please contact george@openschooleast.org
Schedule:
5:30 – 6:00pm: Doors open
6:00 – 7:15pm: Part 1 – Reading
7:15 – 7:20pm: Break
7:20 – 7:45pm: Part 2 – In Conversation and Q&A
Refreshments provided
About Joelle Taylor
Joelle Taylor is the author of 4 collections of poetry and a novel. Her most recent collection C+NTO & Othered Poems won the 2021 T.S Eliot Prize and was the subject of a Radio 4 arts documentary Butch. C+NTO was nominated for the Rathbone Folio Prize, longlisted for the Ondaatje Prize, and won 2022 the Polari Book Prize.
OSE Public Programme 2023-24
Events held as part of this year’s Associate-led Public Programme respond to questions explored in the Associate’s central curriculum project It’s My Life, Don’t You Forget, led by artist the vacuum cleaner, and guest project Circulating Energies led by artist Hugh Nicholson.
The programme explores the structures and spaces in which care is given; where many forms of creativity, community and collectivity are found. It asks if and where we feel safe? How can we be safe together? Weaving together a number of collective modes of thought and action, the programme explores production in these spaces, asking what strategies of resistance might also be cultivated? And what new forms and structures might be realised?
You can find more Public Programme events at: openschooleast.org/ose-public-programme-2024
