SHORTLISTED FOR THE FORWARD PRIZE FOR POETRY 2022 With Sonnets for Albert, Anthony Joseph returns to the autobiographical material explored in his earlier collection Bird Head Son. In this follow-up, he weighs the impact of being the son of an absent, or mostly absent, father, Though these poems threaten to break under the weight of their emotions, they are always masterfully poised as the stylish man they depict.
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.
Title: Sonnets for Albert
Author: Joseph, Anthony
ISBN: 9781526649942
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Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Publication Date: 2022-06-09
Number of Pages: 112
Weight: 0.1200 kg
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 *
Praise for Anthony Joseph: Possessing or possessed by requisite bearings, language and lore, Anthony Joseph is fully and beautifully up to the task -- Nathaniel Mackey
An exceptional talent -- Blake Morrison