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
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鈥榁补濒别苍迟颈苍别鈥�
By Joelle Taylor
From C+nto & Othered Poems
Published by The Westbourne Press
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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
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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
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Extract from 鈥極n Insomnia鈥�
By Fran Lock
From
It originally appeared in The Poetry Review
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Extract from 鈥楥ohort鈥�
By Fran Lock
From Dogtooth
Published by Out Spoken Press
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Extract from 鈥楾he Waste Land鈥�
By TS Eliot
From The Waste Land and Other Poems
Published by Vintage
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鈥楬ow Men Will Remember their Fathers鈥�
By Anthony Anaxagorou
From After the Formalities
Published by Penned in the Margins
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鈥楧ive Bar鈥�
By Caroline Bird
From The Air Year
Published by Carcanet Press Ltd
Audio courtesy of Forward Arts Foundation
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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
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鈥楢苍驳别濒鈥�
By Joelle Taylor
From C+nto & Othered Poems
Published by The Westbourne Press
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- Sun 12 Jun 2022 16:30麻豆约拍 Radio 4 FM
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