Jason Allen-Paisant is the author of two critically acclaimed books of poetry, Thinking with Trees and Self-Portrait as Othello, which won the United Kingdom’s two most prestigious poetry awards for 2023—the Forward Prize and T. S. Eliot Prize. He is also a Professor of Critical Theory and Creative Writing at the University of Manchester and Associate Editor of Callaloo Literary Journal. Originally from Jamaica, Jason lives in Leeds with his partner and two children.
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Books by Jason Allen-Paisant
Jason Allen-Paisant grew up in Coffee Grove, in the May Day Mountains of Jamaica. The cycles of his boyhood revolved around tending the plots of cabbage, tomatoes, and yams dotting the clay hillsides; playing beneath the cavernous roots of cotton trees; and climbing trunks of the fruit trees that fed him and his grandmother.
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