Tuesday 15 November 2022, 8pm
Delighted to welcome back Trinidad-born poet, novelist, academic and musician, Anthony Joseph, presenting a special full-band set focussing primarily on the poetic element of his work.
Moving between the free, the surreal and the spiritual, Joseph will be performing work from his last two books, Sonnets for Albert & The Frequency of Magic, and from his last album, The Rich are Only Defeated When Running For Their Lives, as well as performing new material for the first time in the UK.
‘An absolutely brilliant writer’ – Benjamin Zephaniah
‘An exceptional talent’ – Blake Morrison
Anthony Joseph / poetry
Andrew John / bass
Denys Baptiste / saxophone
Colin Webster / saxophone
David Bitan / drums
Thibaut Remy / guitar
Richard Olatunde Baker / percussion
Anthony Joseph FRSL 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 Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a Lecturer in Creative Writing at Kings College, London. His 2022 collection Sonnets for Albert won the T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry 2022 and the OCM BOCAS Prize for Caribbean Poetry.
