Description
Join award-winning Trinidad-born poet, novelist, academic, and musician Anthony Joseph for a spellbinding evening of poetry and storytelling, shared alongside the brilliant Beehive Poets collective.
Joseph will perform selections from his acclaimed poetry, including work from his T. S. Eliot Prize-winning collection Sonnets for Albert—a luminous exploration of family, memory, and identity. This will be followed by a reading of his evocative and richly textured short stories, bringing his celebrated narrative voice to the stage.
A rare opportunity to experience the full range of one of contemporary literature’s most dynamic voices, alongside some of Bradford’s finest local poets.
Please note this event is first come, first served with 80 seats available.
About the Poet
Dr Anthony Joseph
Dr 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 2018 novel Kitch: A Fictional Biography of a Calypso Icon was shortlisted for the Republic of Consciousness Prize, the Royal Society of Literature’s Encore Award, and long listed for the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature. His most recent publication is the experimental novel The Frequency of Magic. In 2019, he was awarded a Jerwood Compton Poetry Fellowship. As a musician, he has released eight critically acclaimed albums, and in 2020 received a Paul Hamblyn Foundation Composers Award. He is a Lecturer in Creative Writing at Kings College, London. His new poetry collection Sonnets for Albert was shortlisted for the Forward Prize and won the T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry 2022
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