Anthony Joseph

Anthony Joseph is an award-winning Trinidad-born poet, novelist, academic and musician. He is the author of five poetry collections and three novels. His 2022 collection Sonnets for Albert won the T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry 2022, described by judges as ‘A luminous collection which celebrates humanity in all its contradictions and breathes new life into this enduring form’. The collection was also winner of the OCM Bocas Prize for Poetry, and shortlisted for the Forward Prize. Joseph’s 2018 novel Kitch was shortlisted for the Republic of Consciousness Prize, and the Royal Society of Literature’s Encore Award. As a musician, he has released nine critically acclaimed albums, and in 2020 received a Paul Hamblyn Foundation Composers Award. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a Lecturer in Creative Writing at Kings College, London.