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About

Dr Anthony Joseph is an award winning Trinidad-born poet, novelist, academic and musician. He is the author of five poetry collections and three novels. His 2018 novel Kitch: A Fictional Biography of a Calypso Icon was shortlisted for the Republic of Consciousness Prize, the Royal Society of Literature’s Encore Award, and long listed for the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature. In 2019, he was awarded a Jerwood Compton Poetry Fellowship. As a musician, he has released eight critically acclaimed albums, and in 2020 received a Paul Hamblyn Foundation Composers Award. He is a Lecturer in Creative Writing at Kings College, London.

His new collection Sonnets for Albert was shortlisted for the Forward Prize and won the T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry 2022

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World of Words

Anthony Joseph and the Modern Sonnet

Anthony Joseph, Maxine Beneba Clarke

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22 May

World of Words

Workshop: New Approaches to the Sonnet with Anthony Joseph

Anthony Joseph

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24 May
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An extract from Anthony Joseph's Sonnets for Albert

8 May 2023
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