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Precious & Impossible: Selected Poems
- Author
- Anthony Joseph
- Narrator
- Anthony Joseph
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- Publish Date
- 26 September 2024
- Run Time
- 3 hours 42 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
- Genre
- Poetry / Poems
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Featuring exclusive new work, Precious and Impossible gathers together over three decades of poetry from the T S Eliot Prize-winning Anthony Joseph
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For over three decades, Anthony Joseph’s work has explored the transnational vibrations of the African diaspora. Precious and Impossible brings together thirty years of Joseph’s poetry and lyrics – cementing his status as one of our greatest living poets and polymaths
'Joseph is both a faithful heir and an agnostic rebel; a Black poet haunted by Africa’s past as well as a bilingual post-modernist amused by the possibilities of the future' Ali Alizadeh
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A luminous collection which celebrates humanity in all its contradictions and breathes new life into this enduring form
TS ELIOT PRIZE JUDGES
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Possessing or possessed by requisite bearings, language and lore, Anthony Joseph is fully and beautifully up to the task
NATHANIEL MACKEY
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Details
- Author
- Anthony Joseph
- Narrator
- Anthony Joseph
- Duration
- 3 hours 42 minutes
- Release Date
- 26 September 2024
- ISBN
- 9781526673633
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- Genre
- Poetry / Poems
Synopsis
Bloomsbury presents Precious and Impossible written and read by Anthony JosephFeaturing exclusive new work, Precious and Impossible gathers together over three decades of poetry from the T S Eliot Prize-winning Anthony Joseph___________________________________________For over three decades, Anthony Joseph’s work has explored the transnational vibrations of the African diaspora. Precious and Impossible brings together thirty years of Joseph’s poetry and lyrics – cementing his status as one of our greatest living poets and polymaths'Joseph is both a faithful heir and an agnostic rebel; a Black poet haunted by Africa’s past as well as a bilingual post-modernist amused by the possibilities of the future' Ali Alizadeh
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