Jason Allen-Paisant is a Jamaican writer and academic who works as a senior lecturer in Critical Theory and Creative Writing at the University of Manchester. He’s the author of two poetry collections, Thinking with Trees (Carcanet Press, 2021), winner of the 2022 OCM Bocas Prize for poetry, and Self-Portrait as Othello (Carcanet Press, 2023), which won the Forward Prize for Best Collection as well as the T. S. Eliot Prize. His non-fiction book, The Possibility of Tenderness, will be published in 2025. Author photo © Adrian Pope for the T. S. Eliot Prize
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The T. S. Eliot Foundation is delighted to announce the winner of the T. S. Eliot Prize 2023 is Jason Allen-Paisant for his second collection Self-Portrait as Othello, published by Carcanet Press. The judges Paul Muldoon (Chair), Sasha Dugdale and Denise Saul said: Self-Portrait as Othello is a book with...
We are thrilled to announce the T. S. Eliot Prize 2023 Shortlist, chosen by judges Paul Muldoon (Chair), Sasha Dugdale and Denise Saul from 186 poetry collections submitted by British and Irish publishers. The list comprises a former winner and two previously shortlisted poets, as well as two debuts and two...
