Anthony Joseph is the recipient of the T. S. Eliot Prize it's just been announced winning for Sonnets for Albert. Worth £25,000 and amounting to Britain’s most valuable poetry award the annual prize for best new poetry collection has previously been awarded to Ted Hughes, Carol Ann Duffy and Seamus Heaney. The Trinidadian British poet and jazz artist author of Kitch is a vocalist in a spoken word, orator, syncretic John the Baptist voice in the wilderness calypsonian griot sense and is known as a live performer with Spatial AKA and The Spasm Band.
Joseph was announced as winner by the chair and prize judge Jean Sprackland this evening at an announcement held at London’s Wallace Collection museum.
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