Polari

Julia Armfield and Jon Ransom have won this year’s Polari prizes for books that explore LGBTQ+ experiences – both with novels that look at water and the sea.Our Wives Under The Sea by Julia Armfield.Ransom won the £1,000 Polari first book prize for The Whale Tattoo, while Armfield’s Our Wives Under the Sea was named winner of the overall prize, which comes with a cash award of £2,000.Ransom and Armfield were announced as the winners at a ceremony at the British Library on Friday evening. “In their different ways, both of…

Spoken word poet Joelle Taylor has won the Polari book prize for her collection which “defends our right to walk without fear, wear what we choose, be who we uniquely are”.C+nto & Othered Poems, which explores the UK’s underground lesbian culture, was named the winner of the £2,000 prize, which is the top award in the UK’s only dedicated awards for LGBTQ+ literature. It is the second major award for the book, which won the TS Eliot prize earlier this year.The Polari first book prize was awarded to Adam Smith’s debut…