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Early Bird £8 | Standard £10 | On the Door £12
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About this event
An award-winning poet and author, Joelle completed a world tour prior to the pandemic with her collection Songs My Enemy Taught Me. She founded SLAMbassadors, the UK national youth poetry slam championships, as well as the international spoken-word project Borderlines. She is widely anthologised, the author of 4 collections of poetry and is currently completing her debut collection of inter-connecting short stories The Night Alphabet.
Her new poetry collection C+NTO & Othered Poems was published in June 2021 and is the subject of the Radio 4 arts documentary Butch. It won the T.S Eliot Prize and has been named by The Telegraph, the New Statesman, The White Review & Times Literary Supplement as one of the best poetry books of 2021. It’s also listed as DIVA magazine’s Book of the Month, and awarded 5 stars by the Morning Star. She has received a Changemaker Award from the Southbank Centre, a Fellowship of the RSA, and her poem Valentine was Highly Commended in the Forward Prize.
She is a co-curator and host of Out- Spoken Live, the UK’s premier poetry and music club currently resident at the Southbank Centre. She is the commissioning editor at Out-Spoken Press 2020-2022.
Additional acts to be announced.
Doors open: 7pm
Licensed bar available.
Age guide: 15+
SproutSpoken is kindly supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.
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