Joelle Taylor: Poetry and Protest
How were we to know/ that when we were cleansing/ we were erasing our whole existence – CUNTO, Joelle Taylor My whole life has been a protest, and my body a political placard. My body has also been a battleground and a bar room, a tourist spot and a cemetery, a haunted house and a roadside…
Apples and Snakes: Assembly – Women’s Suffrage
Apples and Snakes: Assembly celebrates the centenary of the first wave of women’s suffrage. Featuring Stockton-based women’s writing group Tees Women Poets, Hull-based collective Women of Words, and Sheffield-based collective Verse Matters, alongside Apples and Snakes’ North Producer Kirsten Luckins. Edited by Jay Sykes.
Spoken Word: An Education
I have been a Spoken Word Educator for three years. Each year has been different, any teacher will profess that no two years are the same. In my first year working in schools it was a concern that my voice as a poet would be compromised as I adapted to teaching in mainstream education. But…
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