The Night Alphabet: An evening of live readings with poet Joelle Taylor

Photo © Roman Manfredi

🗓️ Wednesday 21 February, 5.30PM – 8.00PM (GMT)

📍 Turner Contemporary, Rendezvous, Margate CT9 1HG

Join T. S. Eliot & Polari Prize award-winning poet Joelle Taylor for live readings from her debut novel ‘The Night Alphabet’ and an in-conversation with OSE Associate Alex Vellis. 

Joelle Taylor is the author of 4 collections of poetry. Her most recent collection C+NTO & Othered Poems won the 2021 T.S Eliot Prize, and the 2022 Polari Book Prize for LGBT authors. C+NTO is currently being adapted for theatre with a view to touring. She is a co-curator and host of Out-Spoken Live at the Southbank Centre, and tours her work nationally and internationally in a diverse range of venues, from Australia to Brazil.

Set across geographies and timespans, The Night Alphabet is a dazzlingly bold and original work, a deep investigation into human nature and violence against women.

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This event is a LGBTQIA+ centred space, and invites Kent-based, working class writers to join the conversation.

If you’re unable to attend after booking – we ask that you cancel your ticket via Eventbrite and free up a space for another participant. If this event is fully booked and you would like to be placed on a waiting list, or you have any other queries, please contact george@openschooleast.org


OSE Public Programme 2023-24

This year’s Associate-led Public Programme, Where Echo Lies, takes us to the edges of our experience, where it is dark, and all is not necessarily clear. Plunging into new depths, the programme thinks through deep time and the unconscious mind. What forms of solace might be found in the night that cannot emerge in the light of day? What might we hear when surrounded by this darkness? Through myth making, spectatorship, performance, and painting, you are invited to look inward and ask how can our experience help us understand what lies beneath the knowable?

You can find more Public Programme events at: openschooleast.org/ose-public-programme-2024

We’re excited to announce our continued partnership with Turner Contemporary, who are generously hosting part of the public programme.

Turner Contemporary is one of the UK’s leading art galleries. Founded to celebrate JMW Turner’s connection to Margate in 2001, the David Chipperfield designed gallery opened in 2011. Turner Contemporarys work extends beyond showcasing world-class exhibitions, to driving the social and economic regeneration of Margate and East Kent and transforming lives in one of the most deprived areas of the UK.

You can find accessibility details for Turner Contemporary here: turnercontemporary.org/accessibility