Quay Words presents Anthony Joseph: Precious and Impossible

This March we are delighted to welcome back Anthony Joseph to the Exeter Custom House, for a reading from his new selected poems Precious and Impossible.
Featuring exclusive new work, Precious and Impossible gathers together over three decades of poetry from the T S Eliot Prize-winning Anthony Joseph.
About Anthony Joseph
Anthony Joseph F.R.S.L. is an award winning Trinidad-born poet, novelist, academic and musician. His 2022 collection Sonnets for Albert [https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/sonnets-for-albert-9781526649942/] won the T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry 2022 [https://tseliot.com/prize/the-t-s-eliot-prize-2022/winner/] and the OCM BOCAS Prize for Caribbean Poetry. He is the author of four further 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 Literatures Encore Award and the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Fiction. His most recent fiction publication is the experimental novel T he Frequency of Magic. 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 Hamlyn Foundation Composers Award. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a Lecturer in Creative Writing at Kings College, London. P recious and Impossible: Selected Poems was published by Bloomsbury in 2024.
Image credit: Naomi Woddis
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Wednesday | 18:30 |
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