Join us downstairs at the Moat for a captivating conversation with award-winning poet, novelist, academic, and musician Anthony Joseph, as he discusses and reads from his acclaimed collection, Sonnets for Albert, winner of this year’s prestigious TS Eliot Prize for Poetry. Hailed by the TS Eliot Prize judges as ‘luminous’ and ‘courageous’, Joseph’s largely autobiographical collection explores themes of absent fathers, childhood solitude, and the unreliability of memory. Speaking with Maxine Beneba Clarke as part of the Wheeler Centre’s World of Words, Joseph will share insights into his creative process, his varied career from poetry to music, and the influence of his Trinidadian heritage on his writing. Don't miss your chance to delve into the mind of a masterful poet and experience the power of his words firsthand.
This event is supported by the Melbourne City Revitalisation Fund, a Victorian Government and City of Melbourne partnership.
From South Korea to Mozambique, the UK to Vietnam, India to the USA – World of Words brings together some of the world's most exciting writers and thinkers as they share insights, ideas and inspiration from their internationally acclaimed careers.
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The bookseller for this event is the Sun Bookshop.
Dr Anthony Joseph is an award winning Trinidad-born poet, novelist, academic and musician. He is the author of five poetry collections and three novels. His 2018 novel Kitch: A Fictional Biography of a Calypso Icon was ...
Maxine Beneba Clarke is the author of the acclaimed memoir The Hate Race, the award-winning short fiction collection Foreign Soil, the poetry collections Carrying The World and How Decent Folk Behave, and many other books ...