Kwame Dawes is new poet laureate of Jamaica 🇯🇲 ⁦Kwame Dawes⁩ jamaicaobserver.com/2024/04/09/kwa…

Tonight, I’m in conversation with David Scott at the Institute for Ideas and Imagination in Paris. If you’re nearby, it’d be good to see you. ideasimagination.columbia.edu/events/self-po…

A very nice piece by Ronan McGreevy on BRAN's research in the The Irish Times !!

The radio programme on Levy produced by Claire Cunningham and presented by Jason Allen-Paisant is still available on BBC Sounds MU English Dept jermayne mckay

Check out a captivating essay on translating Aimé Césaire by Jason Allen-Paisant, guest editor for an upcoming CALLALOO issue on Black Britain, at WordsWithoutBorders! bit.ly/3VAhQ02

How it started…how it’s going.

Shame on you HOME for choosing to silence rather than celebrate Palestinian voices.

In relation to the cancelation of the forthcoming 'Voices of Resilience' event at Home, and the libelous allegation that led to it, Comma has made its statement here:
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Jason Allen-Paisant Oxford University Press I just requested a copy of 'Engagements with Aimé Césaire' through the UoE library & am very much looking forward to reading it!
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Thank you for reading Takeshi Morisato It’s paywall free.
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In case you missed it StAnza Poetry: the tremendous lecture from Jason Allen-Paisant is available to watch (& re-watch) online byretheatre.com/shows/jason-al…

This was such a great lecture - available to watch back now -

The technical glitch has been finally resolved. My lecture 'All people must be able to write about the birds: Poetry and the sensorium of catastrophe', at StAnza Poetry, is now available for folks who want to watch: byretheatre.com/shows/jason-al…

Happy St Patrick's Day! At 16:30 BBC Radio 4 award-winning poet Jason Allen-Paisant presents A Jamaican Poet in Dublin, a forgotten episode from the history of Irish poetry. Poetry Ireland Jessica Traynor Nandi Jola Colourscope (previously Rainbow Storytelling) peter vandermeersch Martin Doyle . bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

Sooooooooo good as always to see poetry collections in the Jhalak Prize longlist. Huge congrats to Mary Jean Chan (Bright Fear) and Jason Allen-Paisant (Self-Portrait as Othello). And to all longlisted. #jhalakprize24

I keep thinking that I can't get angrier about the Diane Abbott situation and then another wave of anger washes over me. This bablyon wants us dead. At the very most, it'll only accept us as husks of who we are.

Coming up Sun 17 March 16:30 BBC Radio 4 Jason Allen-Paisant presents A Jamaican Poet in Dublin about #FerdinandLevy . With #EllenOFlaherty #KarlOHanlon #BrentHayesEdwards Nandi Jola Jessica Traynor Colourscope (previously Rainbow Storytelling) #BelindaLevy & Romario Simpson . bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

More good prize news for Jason Allen-Paisant and his second collection, Self-Portrait as Othello, which has made it onto the 2024 Jhalak Prize longlist! Congratulations to Jason and all the other books and publishers included. carcanet.co.uk/np39.shtml

Delighted to announce the longlist for Jhalak Prize 2024

Each of these books is a literary gem, to be admired, loved and treasured forever.

Our immense gratitude to the writers, creatives, publishers for bringing us this treasure trove!
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Congratulations to Jason Allen-Paisant. From a recent interview with him about the book: “poetry is a way of thinking outside of history…poetry gives us access or the ability to form an alternative lineage”.