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Sonnets for Albert
T.S. Eliot Prize · 2022 · Winner
Award History
| Award | Year | Status |
|---|---|---|
| T.S. Eliot Prize | 2022 | Winner |
About This Book
Anthony Joseph's T.S. Eliot Prize-winning collection elegises his Trinidadian father through forty-nine sonnets, weaving together jazz, Calypso, Caribbean history, and personal myth. The result is a vivid portrait of a man and a culture, told with formal rigor and emotional abandon.
About the Author
Anthony JosephTT/GB
Anthony Joseph is a Trinidadian-British poet, novelist, and musician. He won the T.S. Eliot Prize in 2022 for Sonnets for Albert (Bloomsbury), a collection of sonnets elegising his father and exploring Trinidad's history and culture. Read more →
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