Quay Words presents Anthony Joseph: Precious and Impossible

About Anthony Joseph:

Anthony Joseph F.R.S.L. is an award winning Trinidad-born poet, novelist, academic and musician. His 2022 collection Sonnets for Albert won the T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry 2022 and the OCM BOCAS Prize for Caribbean Poetry. He is the author of four further 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 the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Fiction.

His most recent fiction 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 Hamlyn Foundation Composers Award. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a Lecturer in Creative Writing at Kings College, London.

Precious and Impossible: Selected Poems was published by Bloomsbury in 2024.

Image credit: Naomi Woddis

This event will be in-person at Exeter Custom House. You can find out more about the accessibility of the Custom House here: https://quaywords.org.uk/about/access/

If you have any access needs you’d like to discuss before the event, you can contact the organisers at: quaywords@literatureworks.org.uk. They can offer free carer tickets if you need help to support you to be able to attend