The Haunted Body Workshop with Joelle Taylor

We are delighted to welcome Joelle Taylor, winner of the 2021 TS Eliot Prize and the 2022 Polari Book Prize to Toxteth Library for The Haunted Body, a masterclass in writing. Joelle will take participants through some of her tried-and-tested techniques used to create her poetry collection, C+NTO & Othered Poems, and her new novel The Night Alphabet, a web of interconnecting stories recently published to great critical acclaim. Joelle will explore the poetics of the body, from character sketches to praise poetry, through to the invention of form.

The workshop precedes Joelle’s performance of The Night Alphabet, as part of WoWFEST 2024, at the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic on the evening of Thursday 30th May. Get tickets for The Night Alphabet here.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Night-Alphabet-Joelle-Taylor-ebook/dp/B0C5SY4137

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, the 2022 Polari Book Prize for LGBTQ+ authors. Her novel The Night Alphabet was published by Riverrun in February 2024 to widespread acclaim. Joelle is a Poetry Fellow at the University of East Anglia and has led classes in universities, schools, prisons, refugee centres and youth centres, and for organisations including the Poetry Society, British Council, Arvon Foundation and English PEN. She was awarded a Southbank Centre Change-Maker prize in 2017, in recognition of her work in poetry education.

Wednesday 29th May, 2pm – 4pm 

Quaker Meeting House, George Fox Room, 22 School Ln, Liverpool L1 3BT 

Tickets: £5 

*These are difficult times. We know some people may struggle to afford full price tickets. If you would like to attend this event but can't afford to, please contact info@writingonthewall.org.uk. All queries will be treated in confidence.   

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