Bloomsbury Publishing | Sonnets for Albert | Anthony Joseph | Winner of the T S Eliot Prize 2022 | Bloomsbury Poetry @BloomsburyPublishing | Uploaded May 2023 | Updated October 2024, 9 hours ago.
In this award winning collection, Calypsonian renderings of the sonnet bubble with lyricism, musicality, and breathtaking emotional depth

With Sonnets for Albert, Anthony Joseph returns to the autobiographical material explored in his earlier collection Bird Head Son. In this follow-up, he weighs the impact of being the son of an absent, or mostly absent, father, Though these poems threaten to break under the weight of their emotions, they are always masterfully poised as the stylish man they depict.

WINNER OF THE T S ELIOT PRIZE FOR POETRY 2022
SHORTLISTED FOR THE FORWARD PRIZE FOR POETRY 2022
LONGLISTED FOR THE OCM BOCAS PRIZE 2023
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