Anthony Joseph is a Trinidad-born poet, novelist, academic and musician. He is the author of five poetry collections and three novels. In 2019, he was awarded a Jerwood Compton Poetry Fellowship and in 2020 received a Paul Hamlyn Foundation Composers Award. His most recent collection Sonnets for Albert won the 2022 T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry and the OCM BOCAS Prize for Caribbean Poetry. He is a Lecturer in Creative Writing at King’s College, London.
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