{"id":32,"date":"2024-10-31T18:48:15","date_gmt":"2024-10-31T18:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tse.spyrosntanos.com\/person\/jason-allen-paisant\/"},"modified":"2025-06-12T10:43:40","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T09:43:40","slug":"jason-allen-paisant","status":"publish","type":"person","link":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/person\/jason-allen-paisant\/","title":{"rendered":"Jason Allen-Paisant"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>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\u2019s the author of two poetry collections,\u00a0<em>Thinking with Trees<\/em>\u00a0(Carcanet Press, 2021), winner of the 2022 OCM Bocas Prize for poetry, and\u00a0<em>Self-Portrait as Othello\u00a0<\/em>(Carcanet Press, 2023), which won the Forward Prize for Best Collection as well as the T. S. Eliot Prize.\u00a0His non-fiction book,\u00a0<em>The Possibility of Tenderness<\/em>, will be published in 2025. <em>Author photo \u00a9 Adrian Pope for the T. S. Eliot Prize<\/em><\/p>\r\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jasonallenpaisant.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.jasonallenpaisant.com<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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\u2019s the author of two poetry collections,\u00a0Thinking with Trees\u00a0(Carcanet Press, 2021), winner of the 2022 OCM Bocas Prize for poetry, and\u00a0Self-Portrait as Othello\u00a0(Carcanet Press, 2023), which won the Forward Prize [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":9401,"parent":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-32","person","type-person","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person\/32","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/person"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}