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Roger McGough is joined by the writer and musician Anthony Joseph, who makes a selection from listeners' poem requests and recommendations and shares some of his own work. They talk about whether writing or music came first for Anthony and about the riches of Caribbean poetry. Anthony's choices include poems by James Berry, Claude McKay, Derek Walcott, Charles Causley, Audre Lorde, Edward Kamau Brathwaite and Helen Dunmore.

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.

As a musician, he has released eight critically acclaimed albums, and in 2020 received a Paul Hamlyn Foundation Composers Award. He holds a PhD in Creative Writing from Goldsmiths University and is a Lecturer in Creative Writing at Kings College, London. His new collection Sonnets for Albert was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Collection and the T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry.

​Produced in Bristol by Mair Bosworth for Â鶹Éç Audio