Poetry Reading Series: Jason Allen-Paisant

Jason Allen-Paisant is a Jamaican writer and academic who works as a senior lecturer in Critical Theory and Creative Writing at the University of Manchester. He is the author of two poetry collections, Thinking with Trees (Carcanet Press, 2021), winner of the 2022 OCM Bocas Prize for poetry, and Self-Portrait as Othello (Carcanet Press, 2023), winner of the 2023 T.S. Eliot Prize.

Jason will read from a selection of poems, followed by a conversation with Malika Booker.