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The Possibility of Tenderness by Jason Allen-Paisant audiobook review – meditations on nature and belonging

The poet reconnects with the landscape of the May Day Mountains in Jamaica where he grew up in a personal story of migration, race and rural life

The Guardian - UK · Apr 16

The Possibility of Tenderness by Jason Allen-Paisant review – a Jamaican childhood

The poet and writer returns to the May Day mountains in a gentle rumination on family and nature

The Guardian - UK · Apr 3, 2025

Poet Jason Allen-Paisant: ‘We belong in the picture’

The Jamaican-born author on exploring nature and black identity in his nonfiction debut, his chaotic writing habits, and how the TS Eliot prize changed his life

The Guardian - UK · Mar 22, 2025

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‘It was a real trauma’: the TS Eliot poetry prize winner on his turbulent upbringing

He grew up in Jamaica, thinking his grandmother was his mother, learning how to read from a blackboard on her veranda. What does Jason Allen-Paisant plan to do now? Fly to Ethiopia to meet his father for the first time

The Guardian - UK · Jan 16, 2024

Jamaican poet Jason Allen-Paisant’s Self-Portrait as Othello wins TS Eliot prize

Judges praised the ‘imaginative capacity and technical flair’ of a collection that draws connections between Shakespeare’s hero and today’s immigrants

The Guardian - UK · Jan 15, 2024

Best poetry books of 2023

Fresh takes on ancient Greece, Shakespeare and true crime are among this year’s standout collections

The Guardian - UK · Dec 5, 2023

Bohdan Piasecki wins best performed poem in new Forward prize category

Piasecki’s ‘electric’ performance of Almost Certainly wins new award that recognises spoken word artists, while Malika Booker, Jason Allen-Paisant and Momtaza Mehri also scoop up prizes

The Guardian - UK · Oct 16, 2023

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Shortlisted TS Eliot prize poets speak to a disrupted world

The 10 listed collections range from ‘zany intimacy’ by Sharon Olds to explorations of Black identity from Ishion Hutchinson and Jason Allen-Paisant

The Guardian - UK · Oct 2, 2023

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