Jamaican-British poet and winner of the 2023 T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry Jason Allen-Paisant. Photo by Carcanet Press, courtesy Bocas Lit Fest, used with permission. On Monday, January 15, at an award ceremony held at the Wallace Collection, London, Jamaica-born poet Jason Allen-Paisant was announced as the winner of the 2023 T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry for his collection “Self-Portrait As Othello,” which explores Black masculinity and immigrant identity. Always unafraid to talk about uncomfortable subjects and citing the late Caribbean-British poet Benjamin Zephaniah as an influence, he used …
