The Woman Who Was Not There

Inside this book are tales of women who eat themselves, mothers who collect clouds in small bottles, children who live beneath beds, poets who stand on top of tower blocks and girls who find wings and fly accross a landscape of abandoned council estates, the ghosts of gangs spraying graffiti poetry. It is a book about beauty in ugly places.

Joelle Taylor is a TS Eliot Prize winning poet, spoken word artist, playwright and novelist. She is a former UK slam champion and founder and artistic director of the Poetry Society's national solo youth slam SLAMbassadors UK. She has produced four plays for theatre as well as several texts on performance practice. This is her second poetry collection.