Joelle Taylor in conversation with Owen Sheers

Joelle Taylor is the winner of the TS Eliot Prize and the Polari Prize for LGBTQ+ literature; a queer, working class author of six plays and four collections of poetry, most recently C+nto and Othered Poems. She is the host and co-curator of Out-Spoken, the UK’s premier poetry and music club, currently resident at the Southbank Centre, features regularly on BBC radio and television, and is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and the Royal Society of Arts. Her first novel, The Night Alphabet, was published in February 2022. Owen Sheers is an award-winning poet, author and playwright. Twice-winner of Welsh Book of the Year he was the recipient of the 2016 St Davids Award for Culture and the 2018 Wilfred Owen Poetry Award. His poetry publications include Skirrid Hill and Pink Mist, which was adapted for the stage by Bristol Old Vic. His BAFTA-nominated BBC film-poem The Green Hollow also won three BAFTA Cymru awards, including Best Writer. To Provide All People, his most recent film-poem, was broadcast to mark the 70th anniversary of the NHS. He is also the author of two novels, Resistance and I Saw A Man, and the BBC One drama The Trick.