Rosamund Taylor & Annemarie Ni Churreian with Joelle Taylor

This intimate, salon-style discussion – with readings of poetry - will celebrate the recent collections of Rosamund Taylor (In Her Jaws) and Annemarie Ní Churreáin (The Poison Glen) hosted by Joelle Taylor. 

Rosamund Taylor is a winner of the London Magazine Poetry Prize 2020 and the Mairtín Crawford Award for Poetry 2017. A selection of her poems is included in Queering the Green: Post-2000s Queer Irish Poetry (Lifeboat Press). Her debut collection, In Her Jaws, was published by Banshee Press.

Annemarie Ní Churreáin is a poet from Northwest Donegal. Her books include Bloodroot (Doire Press, 2017), Town (The Salvage Press 2018) and The Poison Glen (The Gallery Press, 2021). Annemarie is a recipient of The Next Generation Award from the Arts Council of Ireland and a co-recipient of The Markievicz Award. She has been Writer-In-Residence at Akademie Schloss Solitude in Germany, Jack Kerouac House in Florida, and Centre Culturel Irlandais in Paris. She is 2022 Guest Editor of both The Cormorant Issue 7 and The Stony Thursday Book Issue 44.

Joelle Taylor is an award-winning poet, playwright and author. A former UK slam champion, she founded SLAMbassadors, the UK’s youth slam championships, in 2001 and was its Artistic Director and National Coach until 2018. Taylor is a fellow of the RSA and the host and co-curator of Out-Spoken, the UK’s premier poetry and music club, currently resident at the Southbank Centre. Taylor is the author of three poetry collections. Her most recent, C+nto & Othered Poems, won the T. S. Eliot Prize 2021 and has been longlisted for the RSL Ondaatje Prize.