Jason Allen-Paisant

Apr 19, 2024 | nationalbooktokens.com | Yepoka Yeebo |Jason Allen-Paisant |Elizabeth-Jane Burnett |Nadia Shireen

The Jhalak Prize and the Jhalak Children's & YA Prize celebrate books by writers of colour. This year's shortlists, announced in April, include dazzling fiction and poetry, thought-provoking non-fiction, children's picture books, and books for teens. We have three sets of each shortlist to give away, so six lucky winners can discover these breath-taking books.

Mar 21, 2024 | wordswithoutborders.org | Jason Allen-Paisant |Suzanne Dracius |Alexander Aguayo

It’s December 2023. Amid the festive holiday buzz, I’m nestled inside my room in Thorigné-Fouillard, a small housing estate near Rennes, in Brittany, holding the CNRS/Présence Africaine edition of Aimé Césaire’s collected works. This volume, entitled Aimé Césaire: Poésie, Théâtre, Essais et Discours [Aimé Césaire: Poetry, Theatre, Essays and Speeches], is a definitive edition of Césaire’s multi-genre oeuvre, and a good number of its texts are yet to be translated into English.

Mar 21, 2024 | wordswithoutborders.org | Jason Allen-Paisant

Jason Allen-Paisant is a Jamaican poet, writer and scholar who works as an associate professor of Critical Theory and Creative Writing at the University of Manchester.... He is the author of two critically acclaimed poetry collections: Thinking with Trees, winner of the 2022 OCM Bocas Prize for poetry, and Self-Portrait as Othello, a Poetry Book Society Choice, which won both the Forward and T. S. Eliot prizes.

Sep 5, 2023 | wordswithoutborders.org | Lee Hyemi |Jason Allen-Paisant |Susan Harris

Yes, it is a lot to live with—Being born an Aries sun with a Scorpio moon. Lady Gaga, Henry James, and I have this in common. (Go on and be a gay icon, the stars divined.)A Scorpio novelist friend of mine said she’s never been interested in celebrities,Whereas I’ve spent my whole life being a fan. Even when I’m not a fan, I still rubberneck. Celebrity is like that, I guess. Star power. The “it” factor. Rizz. Some people are compelling.

Jun 30, 2023 | inkl.com | Jason Allen-Paisant

Best Collection Self Portrait as Othello by Jason Allen-Paisant Bright Fear by Mary Jean Chan A Change in the Air by Jane Clarke The Ink Cloud Reader by Kit Fan My Name is Abilene by Elizabeth Sennitt Clough The Felix Dennis Prize for Best First Collection ISDAL by Susannah Dickey A Method, A Path by Rowan Evans Cane, Corn & Gully by Safiya Kamaria Kinshasa Bad Diaspora Poems by Momtaza Mehri Cowboy by Kandace Siobhan Walker Best Single Poem – Written My body tells me that she’s filing for...