Jason Allen-Paisant
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writer & professor | TS Eliot & Forward Prize winner | alumnus @UniofOxford , @ENS_ULM , @UWIMona | Born & bred a 🇯🇲 ressortissant 🇫🇷
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Grateful for this interview in The Hopkins Review
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Just received a formal letter announcing my promotion to associate professor at the University of Leeds. I hesitate a lot with posts like these, but given that I’m the first in my family to ever go to university, this is a big step, and I owe it to myself and my folks to 1/2
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Look what the postman just delivered! Yes, it’s here in the world, people! My debut collection of poems
@Carcanet
.
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When gratitude is so endless, perhaps the best thing to say is simply, THANKS.
The winner of the T. S. Eliot Prize 2023 is Jason Allen-Paisant, for Self-Portrait as Othello!
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major update: with the collection of my staff ID card, I feel I’ve now completed my move to the University of Manchester. I’m Senior Lecturer in Critical Theory and Creative Writing there.
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My Othello finally touched down, and what a beauty to behold!!! 🌟🌟🌟
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Introducing the book cover!
Publication date: 24 June 2021
These endorsements still giving me all the feels...
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Deep gratitude. Mama, this is for you—as always.
The 2023
#ForwardPrize
for Best Collection goes to….
Jason Allen-Paisant
@jallenpaisant
for ‘Self-Portrait As Othello’ published by
@Carcanet
Congratulations Jason!
#ForwardPrizes
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celebrate this, to dwell in the moment, and acknowledge it. So I’m grateful. Thanks to God for all she has done. 2/2
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Happy Publication Day to SELF-PORTRAIT AS OTHELLO 🎉🎉🎉. To celebrate today, I’m sending a FREE signed copy to someone who likes & RTs this post, no matter where in the world you are!
🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡
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Monday mornings are hectic but so pleasant when you’ve signed a contract with Oxford University Press!
Thinking with Spirits: Engagements with Aimé Césaire forthcoming in 2023 I reckon.
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I’m over the moon that I’ve just signed a contract with
@Carcanet
for THINKING WITH TREES. Out in June 2021. I can’t wait to share this book with you!
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I’m so insanely honoured to be among these
We are proud to announce the
#ForwardPrizes
2023 shortlist for Best Collection:
🌟 Jason Allen-Paisant
@jallenpaisant
🌟 Mary Jean Chan
@maryjean_chan
🌟 Jane Clarke
@jane_janeclarke
🌟 Kit Fan
@Kit_Fan_
🌟 Elisabeth Sennitt Clough
Find out more:
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This book has arrived and up to three years ago I could have never imagined that I’d have a chapter in The Oxford Handbook of Dante.
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COVER REVEAL!
And thanks to
@PoetryBookSoc
for many advance readers 🧡🙏🏾
Self-Portrait as Othello by
@jallenpaisant
has been awarded
@PoetryBookSoc
Spring 2023 Choice – congratulations Jason! 🎉
Find out more on our website:
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Here’s my latest book. It publishes today.
ENGAGEMENTS WITH AIMÉ CÉSAIRE: THINKING WITH SPIRITS!
At least six years in the making and no doubt my most significant output to date as a thinker.
You can order it for yourself or for your library now. 🚀
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Two books I’m getting excited about this year are Camille Dungy’s Soil and
@afroliag
és Uprooting. Two books about gardening and growing things by Black women writing from the US & the UK respectively. Two works of ‘nature writing’ that are poised to redefine the genre.
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Just wanted to share this with you guys. ‘Distance’ by Kei Miller.
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Just a few days to publication of SELF-PORTRAIT AS OTHELLO! 📗Check out this short blog post & video of me talking about the book 👉🏽👉🏽👉🏽
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Happy to see my poem 'Naming' up at Granta
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Please don't forget about this job, help spread the news: Lecturer in Black British History, at University of Leeds. Closing date Tuesday 1 September 2020
@BlackInArtsHums
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The technical glitch has been finally resolved. My lecture 'All people must be able to write about the birds: Poetry and the sensorium of catastrophe', at
@StAnzaPoetry
, is now available for folks who want to watch:
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My article on Aimé Césaire is now available here:
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Thank you, judges!
🏆 Announcing the 2022 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature Shortlist! 🏆
Three books, two of them by first-time authors, have been shortlisted for the twelfth annual award.
#OCMBocasPrize2022
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To say THINKING WITH TREES is gonna have a second, North American life…with the formidable
@Milkweed_Books
! The excitement is something hard to describe.
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Good morning.
@rmcfarlane63
&
@_dodo
have selected my self-portrait as the PBS’ spring choice and I’m very happy about this
So excited to announce our Spring Choice will be
Jason Allen-Paisant's Self-Portrait as Othello and recommendations ft. Liz Berry, Will Harris, Carole Satyamurti, Sarala Estruch, Peter Bennet & Agnes Agboton. Join now for our Spring poetry
#bookbox
📚😍
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I’m truly happy to have been one of the judges for this year’s Nan Shepherd Prize. Every single one of the shortlisted works was urgent in its own way. Massive congratulations to
@a_pirmohamed
and long live the
@NanPrize
.
We're delighted to announce the winner of the 2023 Nan Shepherd Prize is
@a_pirmohamed
's A Beautiful and Vital Place!
As winner of the prize, Alycia will receive a £10,000 publishing contract with
@canongatebooks
and an offer of representation with
@PortyLiterary
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‘She didn’t read books so she didn’t know that she was the world and the heavens boiled down to a drop.’
Jah know, there’s nothing like this novel.
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Oh terrible terrible loss to start this day…
Tragic and devastating in every way. Benjamin was a light, a force, a voice for so many of us in childhood and adulthood alike. The world is not fair. There’s too much to grieve in one lifetime.
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Thank you,
@NanPrize
!
BOOK OF THE WEEK: Thinking With Trees by
@jallenpaisant
. We loved this gentle yet powerful poetry collection following the author’s forest walks in Leeds, reminiscing about his native Jamaica, reclaiming spaces and time spent in nature. Utterly brilliant!
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In this time of uncertainty, it’s good to have this position to look forward to. Here’s to building with you ,
@SMLCLeeds
&
@LeedsUniEnglish
!
We are delighted to announce that Dr Jason Allen-Paisant has been appointed to a Lectureship in Caribbean Poetry and Decolonial Thought
@SMLCLeeds
and
@LeedsUniEnglish
. Jason has taught at the Sorbonne; Oxford; and the University of West Indies Jamaica. Welcome!
@jallenpaisant
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more good company to be in. thanks
@jhalakprize
, one i get excited about every year.
Delighted to announce the longlist for Jhalak Prize 2024
Each of these books is a literary gem, to be admired, loved and treasured forever.
Our immense gratitude to the writers, creatives, publishers for bringing us this treasure trove!
#jhalakprize24
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Remembering the day I got email saying Self-Portrait as Othello was PBS Choice for spring 2023. Had to flash my head and blink several times. Surreal! Right now I’m loving Roy Macfarlane’s words about it in the bulletin 🙏🏾 🙏🏾 🙏🏾 Thanks
@PoetryBookSoc
for the SPACE. ❤️ ❤️ ❤️
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I had to write my own excited tweet about this anthology. I’m just overwhelmed to be among such a stellar lineup of poets. I love John McCauliffe’s fantastic intro and am savouring everybody’s work. Thanks to Michael, John, and every body at
@Carcanet
who made this book!!
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A Jamaica that predates political parties, trades unions, self-governance. A Jamaica still proximate to its recent past of slavery. The acutely observed and captivatingly told story of Bita, Hopping Dick, Jubban… A priceless novel, but also anthropology, history, social critique
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It’s quite something to see Thinking with Trees shortlisted for the Michael Murphy Memorial Poetry Prize more than 2 years after its publication. Gratitude to the judges, & congratulations to the other shortlistees!
Announcing shortlist for Michael Murphy Memorial prize ! Jason Allen-Paisant, Threa Almontaser, Jay Gao, Gail McConnell, James Conor Patterson And thx to
@DerynRJ
@drsarahjackson1
@FaberBooks
@Carcanet
@picadorbooks
@BloodaxeBooks
@PennedintheM
@PolygonBooks
#Poetry
#Poets
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Yesterday I had the great good fortune of meeting a writer I’m absolutely crazy about—Erna Brodber. Someone who was there snapped this photo, unbeknownst to me. Oh my days, look who I’m sitting beside!!
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In case you didn’t know, my
@Carcanet
book Thinking with Trees is being launched 2 weeks from now and will be hosted by friend and phenomenal poet
@Malikabooker
. It would be great to see you there!
Join
@Carcanet
on June 30th to launch
@jallenpaisant
's debut collection 'Thinking With Trees' along with
@Malikabooker
!
Tickets are £2 but are redeemable against the book. Find out more and register:
@LeedsUniEnglish
@LeedsUniAHC
@SMLCLeeds
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2 months since publication of SELF-PORTRAIT AS OTHELLO 🙏🏾🙏🏾 to all who’ve bought it, left a comment somewhere, written a review, recommended it to a friend…🧡🧡
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I’m so happy for the attention this book is receiving.
Come to this reading group via
@EEHNetwork
! Next week we’re discussing amazing, evocative work by
@jallenpaisant
. 🌿
(Also, buy the book from
@Lighthousebks
and get cute bookmarks)
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How good it feels to hold this beautiful object in my hand! And what a privilege to be in this issue alongside
@pleasureblog
and other inspiring writers. Thank you so much, Emily Berry!
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About last night- still can’t get over it, seeing Sun Ra Arkestra in Leeds. What an experience!
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I’m standing beside poet Olive Senior in Le Gouray, a small rural town in Brittany. A rural town that Guadeloupean writer Gerty Dambury is putting on the map with the annual festival called Sanblé. I’ve also just finished a writing residency here on “les plantes de nos enfances”.
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Looking forward to reading all these poems from around the world!
@jallenpaisant
is one of the brilliant judges of the
#NationalPoetryCompetition
2022! Read more about the judges & enter the competition on
#ThePoetrySociety
website
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Lynette Yiadom-Boakye’s reading list at the Tate Britain exhibition is a vibe
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My memoir piece ‘Primitive Child’ available to read on
@GrantaMag
for free until end of February!
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Yes Jason, gwaan break the glass ceiling for many more to come! Fine piece of news to wake up to.
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My essay, ‘Animist Time and the White Anthropocene’ is now free to read and download from
@NewFormations_
@NewFormations_
issue 104/105 - Out Now.
In this free-to-view article,
@jallenpaisant
discusses how animist Afro-diasporic knowledge systems may help us to challenge and upheave prevailing Western construals of the human as 'master' of nature.
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On the way to the Senghor exhibition at the Quai Branly, who wouldn’t stop for a pic with Eiffel Tower?
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So horrible. Well done Stanza for issuing this statement.
We are sorry to announce that Soukaina Habiballah will no longer join us in person at StAnza 2024, having been refused entry to the UK by the Home Office. Please read Artistic Director Ryan Van Winkle's full statement:
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The T S Eliot Prize team
asked me in to do a brief chat about my shortlisted book. Thank you,
@ForwardPrizes
, for sharing.
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Bold and ambitious, the eruption of a singular voice and wit. A language for imaging the Caribbean female body, its everyday movement as choreography, as aesthetic.
When I think of a book that challenges us to see poetry 1/2
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This is a great big week for poetry in Leeds. Last night
@olivesenior
with
#SimonArmitage
, tonight
#PassitOn
feat
@RheimaRob
&
@LYApoets
, then rest of week
@kwamedawes
@TanyaShirley1
@Malikabooker
#KhadijahIbrahiim
and more. This will be intense…
@JamaicaLeeds
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Yes!!! All the medals for Mimi Khalvati.
We are overjoyed to announce that Mimi Khalvati will be awarded the King's Gold Medal for Poetry!
Mimi will be receiving the honour in recognition of her outstanding talent and ability to draw on diverse cultural traditions to enrich British poetry.
🔗
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“This book about my family is not about my family at all, but something quite different: the way memory works, and what memory wants from me.”
Maria Stepashova‘s magical and poetic _In Memory of Memory_
@FitzcarraldoEds
, stunningly translated by
@SashaDugdale
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My duvet is called Othello and I didn’t realise. A sign from the universe?
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On Wednesday I'm speaking at this FREE event organised by
@lancaster_words
. My talk presents the context of my forthcoming book _Thinking with Trees_ (
@Carcanet
).
ANYONE CAN ATTEND! Details below.
@UniLeedsPoetry
@LeedsUniEnglish
@SMLCLeeds
Join us as we welcome Dr Jason Allen-Paisant
@jallenpaisant
of the University of Leeds for a free webinar,
Blackness and Landscape: Writing (against) Enclosure
Wednesday October 21, 1-2pm. To register email Prof John Schad j.schad
@lancaster
.ac.uk
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Have enjoyed reading these within a fairly short interval of time, & the serendipitous discovery of connections
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Thanks to
@seanehewitt
and
@MartinaEvans6
for including Thinking with Trees in the Irish Times’ Best Poetry of the Year.
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It takes a community to make a book succeed. Huge thanks, Roger, for your early support of the book!
Blessing from the postman today!!! My dude
@jallenpaisant
is coming with the goodness.
#shakespeare
#othello
#poetry
#kehindewiley
#blackbodies
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I’ve so enjoyed doing this
To mark Manchester Art Gallery's 200th anniversary, this Saturday
@jallenpaisant
will be performing three exquisite poems inspired by the gallery's collection, and will be joined in conversation by Malika Booker!
There's limited tickets left - book here:
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Today I felt lucky to find After8books, bookshop and publisher specialising in dissident books, located in Château d’Eau area of Paris. This is part of today’s haul.
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This Tuesday I’ll be giving a paper titled ‘Decolonizing epistemology: Thinking with Aimé Césaire’ in
@UniversityLeeds
Centre for World Literatures. Also honoured to have Prof John Mowitt of
@FAHACS
as my respondent. If free and in town, do stop by!
Michael Sadler B.36
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I’ve enjoyed doing this interview with
@ForwardPrizes
Jason Allen-Paisant
@jallenpaisant
is a Jamaican writer & academic, shortlisted for the
#ForwardPrizes
Best Collection for ‘Self-Portrait as Othello’. He’s the author of two poetry collections, & his non-fiction book ‘Scanning the Bush’ will be published in '24.
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‘This indispensable collection explores Shakespeare’s pernicious archetype … makes the historical impasse an occasion for deep, generous interrogation of masculinity, and a linked elevation of the maternal’ — THANK YOU
@FionaRSampson
…just thank you.
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A review of Self-Portrait as Othello in the latest issue of World Literature Today.
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Much enjoying Mona Kareem‘s bold, illuminating critique of Western entrepreneurial translation in the latest
@PoetryBrum
…and what an issue !
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Thanks to the Folio Academy & congrats to the other shortlisted authors. Gwaan do road, Othello.
@JonathanCape
@HamishH1931
@PenguinUKBooks
@ChattoBooks
@AllenLaneBooks
@GrantaBooks
@Carcanet
@FaberBooks
@realzadiesmith
@LauraCummingArt
@NaomiAKlein
@mrkocnnll
Titles shortlisted in the Poetry Category
#writersprize2024
Self-Portrait as Othello by Jason Allen-Paisant
@jallenpaisant
The Home Child by Liz Berry
@MissLizBerry
Bright Fear by Mary Jean Chan
@maryjean_chan
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It's on Wednesday!
This week, we launch
@jallenpaisant
's debut Thinking With Trees! Join us on Wednesday evening with Jason and Malika Booker to celebrate the work:
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She said she could not tell me more as she did not want me to stay with her too long, because the living should not mix-up too much with the dead. But as I was leaving the celestial work-room, she handed me a book. This is that book.
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‘This was at the time that I realised that if I closed my eyes I could disappear into myself and walk straight through the walls … right through to the resting shiny body of a worm.’
The lyricism of
@arshi_mona
’s page-turning first novel.
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Announcing me,
@Malikabooker
and
@ZaffarKunial
at
@coronettheatre
in London next week. Plus, I’m launching my new book! Grab them tickets while they’re hot. We coming good!
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CFP: “Memory and Performance in African-Atlantic Futures” -
International Conference
@UniversityLeeds
31 Aug — 2 Sept 2018
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Curious to know what Self-Portrait as Othello is all about? Well, it’s all here! Thanks to the wonderful team at
@Carcanet
for all that they do!!
‘How does an early 17th century spatial and visual vocabulary about the dark-skinned male foreigner speak to us today, and what responses do we have to it?’
Read
@jallenpaisant
’s blog as he introduces his second collection, Self-Portrait as Othello:
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My Granta piece on Port-au-Prince is printed alongside the photography of Phalonne Pierre Louis.
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Two days ago, I saw this rock carving of Attabey, one of the 12 major Zemis of the Tainos. Attabey is the Taino goddess of the earth and the female fertility symbol. Located in the district of Woodside in St Mary, at the entrance to a sinkhole.
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Thank you
@ValzhynaMort
for your visionary, mind-bending thoughts in the
@PoetrySociety
lecture this evening. I can’t say anything better than thanks. I’ll look forward to reading the lecture again in The Poetry Review. Bless.
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Today I’m re-reading my signed copy of
@adjoseph
T S Eliot Prize-winning Sonnets for Albert in the sun. Big ups brother!
#Triniascendancy
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Gonna start a collection of the most hilarious translations seen at French tourist sites.
Saw this one today at the Grottes de Presque in Lot.
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It’s a privilege to be chairing this conversation on 4th October.
LAUREATE TO LAUREATE OCT 4
@Howard_Assembly
2 Poets Laureate
@olivesenior
(Jamaica) &
#SimonArmitage
(UK) in conversation. Chair
@jallenpaisant
Tickets
@britishlibrary
@natlibja
@LeedsCC_News
🙏🏾
#ACEsupported
#heritagefund
#outofmanylit
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Saw this
#Langar
in Leeds city centre. Free food for the less fortunate but everybody welcome. Utterly heartwarming.
#LangarWeek
#sikhfaith
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Finally met
@YomiSode
in the flesh, and also the wonderful Salma Begum, at Newcastle Poetry Festival. Sweet vibes at dinner.
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It will be a joy to work with
@lisaluxx_
as they embark on this new project. I’m so excited for the things that they will create, developing such vital work.
officially accepted to undertake my PhD on poetic militancy & anti-imperial consciousness among my gen of arab poets.
supervised by significant contributor to cultural thought
@jallenpaisant
!
i hope this scholarly work can one day be a small shelter amid all our inherited loss.
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My research on the history of land ownership in my district of Coffee Grove in Jamaica is now taking me underground.
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‘called her mother god/ because what else// could mother an ocean but god?’
Congrats
@a_pirmohamed
on being
@jhalakprize
longlisted for this captivating book! Onward.👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
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Love that a poem from SELF-PORTRAIT AS OTHELLO is today’s featured poem on Poetry Daily.👇🏾
Today's Featured Poem:
"Place de la Nation" by
@jallenpaisant
, from Self-Portrait as Othello, published by
@Carcanet
.
Read here:
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I keep on coming back back back to this poem. Such perfection, such precision. Camille Ralphs in
@PN_Review
257.
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One of the exciting things I’ve been involved with this year…a total joy
Brilliant afternoon
@mcrartgallery
seeing
@jallenpaisant
present his sublime new poems co-commissioned by
@McrLitFest
&
@MAGcurators
It was a joy to see these poems presented for the first time and feel their energy, playfulness, strength and sensuality being brought to life. 🧵
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It’s an 18 page narrative poem, it’s written by me & it’s been published in
@CallalooJournal
. I’m really really happy, and grateful. Thanks especially to
@pardlo
for challenging me me to take off the mask and write honestly. you’ve pointed the way brother.
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Performing alongside Patience Agbabi & Sharena Lee Satti, then hosting the legendary Linton Kwesi Johnson in conversation, when I was able to truly connect with him for the first time. I went into this a bit star-struck, but LKJ 1/2
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Leeds launch of SELF-PORTRAIT AS OTHELLO at The Collective Incorporated on Boar Lane in Leeds. 30th June 2023. All details in the link👇🏿
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