Anthony Joseph is an award winning Trinidad-born poet, novelist, academic and musician. He is the author of four poetry collections and three novels. His 2018 novel Kitch: A Fictional Biography of a Calypso Icon was shortlisted for the Republic of Consciousness Prize, the Royal Society of Literature’s Encore Award, and long listed for the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature. His most recent publication is the experimental novel The Frequency of Magic.
In 2019, he was awarded a Jerwood Compton Poetry Fellowship.
As a musician, he has released seven critically acclaimed albums, and in 2020 he received a Paul Hamblyn Foundation Composers Award. His new album is due in spring 2021.
https://www.anthonyjoseph.co.uk
