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Precious & Impossible: Selected Poems

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Bloomsbury presents Precious and Impossible written and read by Anthony Joseph

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

Critics Review

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
GUARDIAN
A luminous collection which celebrates humanity in all its contradictions and breathes new life into this enduring form
TS ELIOT PRIZE JUDGES
Possessing or possessed by requisite bearings, language and lore, Anthony Joseph is fully and beautifully up to the task
NATHANIEL MACKEY
Author Anthony Joseph
Narrator Anthony Joseph
Duration 3 hours and 42 minutes
Release Date
ISBN 9781526673633
Format Audiobook
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing
Genre Poetry
Availability AU, GB, IE

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