On Stage
The Listening Post
JOELLE TAYLOR: THE NIGHT ALPHABET
Queer futurism and feminism collide as award winning poet & author Joelle Taylor reads from her electrifying debut novel The Night Alphabet. A heavily tattooed woman walks into a tattoo parlour to get one more inking, a line that will link all the others together. As they work, she tells the story of each tattoo. Set across timescales and geographies, The Night Alphabet is a magic brutalist novel about the quantum physics of belonging, the secret language of women, & global female resistance.
Fresh from her sell out show in the Southbank’s Queen Elizabeth Hall we catch Taylor on her first UK tour of the novel, balancing a traditional reading with live performance. ‘Relentlessly inventive’ Guardian ‘Exquisitely written…extraordinary.’ the Skinny ‘Foremost literary stylist’ The Bookseller ‘Utterly dazzling…bold and brilliant’ DIVA magazine