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

GUARDIAN (on Sonnets for Albert)

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)