Haunting the Black Air
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Publishing:2nd Jul '26
£12.99
This title is due to be published on 2nd July, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
'Joseph is both a faithful heir and an agnostic rebel' ALI ALIZADEH
'An exceptional talent’ BLAKE MORRISON
From the T. S. Eliot Prize-winning author of Sonnets for Albert comes a dextrous and versatile new collection spanning the emotional spectrum of unabashed joy and crippling grief
With musicality and verve, beloved poet and musician Anthony Joseph undertakes a bold new work, excavating the complex nature of feeling. Across London, New York, Trinidad and beyond, whether a funeral in New Cross or a house party in Mount Lambert, Joseph brings heart, soul and verbal ingenuity to the act of unifying life's beautiful fragments.
If Mikhail Bulgakov and Ishmael Reed had a godson in Trinidad raised on Rapso and John Coltrane solos then what you'd get is Anthony Joseph -- ROGER ROBINSON
Joseph is both a faithful heir and an agnostic rebel; a Black poet haunted by Africa's past as well as a bilingual post-modernist amused by the possibilities of the future -- ALI ALIZADEH
Possessing or possessed by requisite bearings, language and lore, Anthony Joseph is fully and beautifully up to the task -- NATHANIEL MACKEY
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 (on Sonnets for Albert) *
A luminous collection which celebrates humanity in all its contradictions and breathes new life into this enduring form -- TS ELIOT PRIZE JUDGES (on Sonnets for Albert)
ISBN: 9781526683380
Dimensions: unknown
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96 pages