Precious & Impossible: Selected Poems

Anthony Joseph is a poet, musician and academic whose work explores the transnational vibrations of the African Diaspora. As well as several poetry collections, a slew of albums, and three novels, Joseph has published critical work exploring the aesthetics of Caribbean Poetry among other subjects. Sonnets for Albert was awarded the 2023 T S Eliot Prize and the OCM Bocas Prize, and was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Poetry.

Praise for Sonnets for Albert: 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