Opening this is both skin-tingling and a tad scary. It’s a bit like cracking open the cover of your own freshly published book, except that, here, you’re introducing readers to the words of someone else. Aimé Césaire, as if so happens.
Thanks to my loving spirits, & to Penguin.

A huge thank you to Horatio Clare Jason Allen-Paisant and Juliana Spahr for taking the time to read Lapwing and being so generous in supporting it 💚

🏆 Congratulations to the winner of the 2024 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, @safiyasinclair!🏆

She has won the 14th annual award for How to Say Babylon: A Memoir, Simon & Schuster / 4th Estate Books

Sponsored by One Caribbean Media

#OCMBocasPrize2024 #bocas2024 #OneCaribbeanMedia

Solidarity with University of Warwick students protesting for their university to cut ties with Israel, & joining the global student movement for Palestinian liberation.

As an alumni of Warwick, & as an academic, I stand with them & I support them!!!

A wonderful evening celebrating Magma Poetry 88 the Underworld issue at the The Workshop Theatre in Leeds. Huge thanks to all the poets that read, including Zaffar Kunial Jason Allen-Paisant Yvonne Reddick Rachel Bower And to my co-editors Kate Simpson & #elladuffy

'Caribbean Crossings: Tribute to Maryse Condé': Forthcoming discussion on #Caribbean identities/influences, May 9th, 7pm Institut français UK with Jean D’Amérique #EstelleSarahBulle Jason Allen-Paisant Clare Finburgh Delijani Goldsmiths, University of London Details/Booking: bit.ly/3xKyQXr #MaryseCondé

Honoured to reissue the vital and moving I SAW RAMALLAH at DauntBooksPublishing this August. Palestinian poet Mourid Barghouti writes about the displacement of Palestinians with such care and resolve. This was written circa 1996 yet it astounds me how little has changed . . . 🇵🇸

It means a lot to be here. A huge thank you.

More power to all the writers here who’ve set aside the chance to win prizes both prestigious and lucrative from PEN America in the name of solidarity with Palestine.

Congratulations to WWB contributor Jason Allen-Paisant, shortlisted for the Jhalak Prize! You can read his essay on Aimé Césaire, history, and poetry here: wordswithoutborders.org/contributors/v…

Thanks for all your work, all your support.

Kwame Dawes is new poet laureate of Jamaica 🇯🇲 ⁦Kwame Dawes⁩ jamaicaobserver.com/2024/04/09/kwa…

Tonight, I’m in conversation with David Scott at the Institute for Ideas and Imagination in Paris. If you’re nearby, it’d be good to see you. ideasimagination.columbia.edu/events/self-po…

A very nice piece by Ronan McGreevy on BRAN's research in the The Irish Times !!

The radio programme on Levy produced by Claire Cunningham and presented by Jason Allen-Paisant is still available on BBC Sounds MU English Dept jermayne mckay

Check out a captivating essay on translating Aimé Césaire by Jason Allen-Paisant, guest editor for an upcoming CALLALOO issue on Black Britain, at WordsWithoutBorders! bit.ly/3VAhQ02

How it started…how it’s going.

Shame on you HOME for choosing to silence rather than celebrate Palestinian voices.

In relation to the cancelation of the forthcoming 'Voices of Resilience' event at Home, and the libelous allegation that led to it, Comma has made its statement here:
commapress.co.uk/blog/comma-pre…

Jason Allen-Paisant Oxford University Press I just requested a copy of 'Engagements with Aimé Césaire' through the UoE library & am very much looking forward to reading it!
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Thank you for reading Takeshi Morisato It’s paywall free.
Oxford University Press

In case you missed it StAnza Poetry: the tremendous lecture from Jason Allen-Paisant is available to watch (& re-watch) online byretheatre.com/shows/jason-al…