Main content
Sorry, this episode is not currently available

Joelle Taylor

The founder of Slambassadors Joelle Taylor makes her selection of poems

Poetry from Walt Whitman, TS Eliot, Caroline Bird and Kayo Chingonyi feature in poet Joelle Taylor's selection of listener requests.
Joelle was awarded the TS Eliot Prize for Poetry in 2021. She is the founder of Slambassadors and is the author of C+nto & Othered Poems.
Among her choices are an extract from Ilya Kaminsky's Deaf Republic read by Garth Greenwell and Noma Dumezweni and an extract of Walt Whitman's Song of Myself read by Orson Welles.

Producer: Maggie Ayre

28 minutes

Last on

Sat 18 Jun 2022 23:30

This Week's Poems

鈥榁补濒别苍迟颈苍别鈥

By Joelle Taylor

From C+nto & Othered Poems

Published by The Westbourne Press

鈥榃e Lived Happily During the War鈥 / extract from 鈥楧eaf Republic鈥

by Ilya Kaminsky

From Deaf Republic

Published by Faber & Faber

Extract read by Garth Greenwell and Noma Dumezweni

Extract from 鈥楽ong of Myself鈥

By Walt Whitman

From 鈥淭he Complete Poems of Walt Whitman鈥

Published by Wordsworth Editions

Extract from 鈥極n Insomnia鈥

By Fran Lock

From

It originally appeared in The Poetry Review

Extract from 鈥楥ohort鈥

By Fran Lock

From Dogtooth

Published by Out Spoken Press

Extract from 鈥楾he Waste Land鈥

By TS Eliot

From The Waste Land and Other Poems

Published by Vintage

鈥楬ow Men Will Remember their Fathers鈥

By Anthony Anaxagorou

From After the Formalities

Published by Penned in the Margins

鈥楧ive Bar鈥

By Caroline Bird

From The Air Year

Published by Carcanet Press Ltd

Audio courtesy of Forward Arts Foundation

鈥楤lues for Albert (Prodigy) Johnson & Carl 鈥楬aystee鈥 Samuel鈥

By Kayo Chingonyi

From 听A Blood Condition

Published by Chatto & Windus

Audio courtesy of Burley Fisher Books

鈥楢苍驳别濒鈥

By Joelle Taylor

From C+nto & Othered Poems

Published by The Westbourne Press


Broadcasts

  • Sun 12 Jun 2022 16:30
  • Sat 18 Jun 2022 23:30