Precious & Impossible: Selected Poems

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Featuring exclusive new work, Precious and Impossible gathers together over three decades of poetry from the T S Eliot Prize-winning Anthony Joseph With an introduction by Lauri Scheyer ___________________________________________ A poet, musician and academic, Anthony Joseph's work has explored the transnational vibrations of the African Diaspora for over three decades. Interwoven with fresh and exclusive new material, Precious and Impossible brings together thirty years of Joseph's poetry and lyrics - cementing his status as one of our greatest living poets and polymaths. 'Joseph is both a faithful heir and an agnostic rebel; a Black poet haunted by Africas past as well as a bilingual post-modernist amused by the possibilities of the future' Ali Alizadeh

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Praise for Sonnets for Albert: After much silence and absence in life, the poets father is painstakingly restored in death in a book-length calypso sonnet sequence ... Sonnets for Albert movingly makes peace with his shade * GUARDIAN *
A luminous collection which celebrates humanity in all its contradictions and breathes new life into this enduring form -- TS ELIOT PRIZE JUDGES
Possessing or possessed by requisite bearings, language and lore, Anthony Joseph is fully and beautifully up to the task -- NATHANIEL MACKEY

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Anthony Joseph is a poet, musician and academic whose work explores the transnational vibrations of the African Diaspora. As well as several poetry collections, a slew of albums, and three novels, Joseph has published critical work exploring the aesthetics of Caribbean Poetry among other subjects. Sonnets for Albert was awarded the 2023 T S Eliot Prize and the OCM Bocas Prize, and was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Poetry.