7/6/2023 0 Comments Ts eliot selected poems![]() Taylor is a former UK slam champion, who founded the UK’s youth slam championships, SLAMbassadors, in 2001. Run by the TS Eliot Foundation, the award is the most valuable prize in British poetry, and the only one judged purely by established poets. “It’s kind of enraged, but it’s this sort of rage which generates light, and it’s a really vivid read – it’s quite something.” “But then there’s also imaginative renderings of nightlife – of lesbian clubs, some of which are kind of hellish and some of which are heavenly,” he said. Maxwell said the winning collection was “pretty autobiographical, about her life as a butch lesbian, and the hostility she suffered as a kid in a conventional family”. “The arguments towards the end were passionate and thoughtful, but the choice of the judging panel is Joelle Taylor’s C+nto and Othered Poems, a blazing book of rage and light, a grand opera of liberation from the shadows of indifference and oppression.” ![]() We found it extremely hard to choose between 10 superb collections,” said chair of judges Glyn Maxwell, who selected the winner along with Caroline Bird and Zaffar Kunial. ![]() “Every book on the shortlist had a strong claim on the award. ![]()
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