Haunting the Black Air

De: Anthony Joseph

'Joseph is both a faithful heir and an agnostic rebel' ALI ALIZADEH
'An exceptional talent’ BLAKE MORRISON

From the T. S. Eliot Prize-winning author of Sonnets for Albert comes a dextrous and versatile new collection spanning the emotional spectrum of unabashed joy and crippling grief

With musicality and verve, beloved poet and musician Anthony Joseph undertakes a bold new work, excavating the complex nature of feeling. Across London, New York, Trinidad and beyond, whether a funeral in New Cross or a house party in Mount Lambert, Joseph brings heart, soul and verbal ingenuity to the act of unifying life's beautiful fragments.©2026 Anthony Joseph (P)2026 Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Reseñas de la Crítica

If Mikhail Bulgakov and Ishmael Reed had a godson in Trinidad raised on Rapso and John Coltrane solos then what you'd get is Anthony Joseph (ROGER ROBINSON)

Joseph is both a faithful heir and an agnostic rebel; a Black poet haunted by Africa's past as well as a bilingual post-modernist amused by the possibilities of the future (ALI ALIZADEH)

Possessing or possessed by requisite bearings, language and lore, Anthony Joseph is fully and beautifully up to the task (NATHANIEL MACKEY)

After much silence and absence in life, the poet's father is painstakingly restored in death in a book-length "calypso sonnet" sequence ... Sonnets for Albert movingly makes peace with his shade

A luminous collection which celebrates humanity in all its contradictions and breathes new life into this enduring form (TS ELIOT PRIZE JUDGES (on Sonnets for Albert))