#Poetry Winner T.S. Eliot Prize 2023

Finish: 01.04.2024
Title: Self-Portrait as Othello (35 poems)
Genre:  Poetry  (79 pg)   April 2024 #NationalPoetryMonth
Author: Jason Allen-Paisant
Rating: A+++

 

1. A life’s journey in poems…starting with the
2. his humble beginnings in Jamacia,
3. his education at Oxford in England and École Supériure in Paris,
4. his travels to Prague, Berlin and Venice and
5. his homecoming  to Jamaica to bury his mother.
6. Portraiting himself as Othello
7. ….Allen-Paisant considers the Black male body. 
8. Othello’s intertwined identities as ‘immigrant’ and ‘Black’
9. …speak to us in the landscape of twenty-first-century Europe.
10. Favorite quote: (pg 23):
11. “…the looks (of others) trying to find whitness in my blackness.”

 

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