Sonnets for Albert: Winner of the T S Eliot Prize 2022

ISBN-13: 9781526649942 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022

Anthony Joseph

Opis

In the acclaimed poet's first collection since 2013, Calypsonian renderings of the sonnet bubble with febrile lyricism, musicality, and breathtaking emotional depth

Recenzje

After much silence and absence in life, the poet's father is painstakingly restored in death in a book-length "calypso sonnet" sequence ... Sonnets for Albert movingly makes peace with his shade Guardian

O autorze

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 is his first poetry collection since Rubber Orchestras in 2013.