Joelle Taylor

A Guardian Book of the Year 2024 'A glorious jewel of a novel' — Sophie Ward 'Exhilarating, profoundly beautiful and exquisitely written' — Salena Godden 'A mesmerising debut from one of the most talented literary stylists writing today' — The Bookseller 'Hugely imaginative' — Marie Claire (Best New Books, 2024) 'It's hard to think of many books more restlessly inventive'...

Winner of the T. S. Eliot Prize 2021 and the Polari Prize 2022 A New Statesman, TLS and White Review Book of the Year The female body is a political space. C+nto enters the private lives of women from the butch counterculture, telling the inside story of the protests they led in the '90s to reclaim their bodies as their...

A POETRY BOOK SOCIETY RECOMMENDATION Taylor's poetry is as dangerous as it is dexterous . . . A wildfire blazing free BERNARDINE EVARISTO Kaleidoscopic in its breath, structure and humanity . . . Both selfless and intimate ANTHONY JOSEPH From the T. S. Eliot and Polari Prize-winning author of C+NTO & Othered Poems comes an innovative collection exploring the scars,...

'Joelle Taylor brings extraordinary linguistic inventiveness to a tale of tattoo artists and violence against women' Guardian (Fiction Books of the Year, 2024) 'A glorious jewel of a novel' Sophie Ward 'Exhilarating, profoundly beautiful and exquisitely written' Salena Godden 'A mesmerising debut from one of the most talented literary stylists writing today' The Bookseller 'Hugely imaginative' Marie Claire (Best New...