Poetry Book Society Spring 2023 Bulletin E-Book
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- Herausgeber: Poetry Book Society
- Kategorie: Poesie und Drama
- Sprache: Englisch
The quarterly poetry magazine of the Poetry Book Society, founded by T.S. Eliot, featuring poems and exclusive interviews from Jason Allen Paisant, Arji Manuelpillai, Sarala Estruch, Carole Satyamurti, Will Harris, Peter Bennet, Agnès Agboton, Lawrence Schimel, Ellora Sutton, and more.
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CONTENTS
CHOICE
Jason Allen-Paisant • Self-Portrait as Othello • Carcanet
RECOMMENDATIONS
Liz Berry • The Home Child • Chatto & Windus
Sarala Estruch • After All We Have Travelled • Nine Arches Press
Will Harris • Brother Poem • Granta
Carole Satyamurti • The Hopeful Hat • Bloodaxe Books
SPECIAL COMMENDATION
Peter Bennet • Nayler & Folly Wood • Bloodaxe Books
TRANSLATION CHOICE
Agnès Agboton • Voice of the Two Shores • Flipped Eye PublishingTranslated by Lawrence Schimel
PAMPHLET CHOICE
Ellora Sutton • Antonyms for Burial • Fourteen Poems
CHOICE SELECTORSRECOMMENDATIONSPECIAL COMMENDATION
JO CLEMENT& ROY McFARLANE
TRANSLATION SELECTOR
HARRY JOSEPHINE GILES
PAMPHLET SELECTORS
NINA MINGYA POWLES& ARJI MANUELPILLAI
CONTRIBUTORS
SOPHIE O'NEILLMEGAN ROBSONLEDBURY CRITICS
EDITORIAL & DESIGN
ALICE KATE MULLEN
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LETTER FROM THE PBS
Exciting times at Poetry Book Society HQ, Alice our wonderful PBS Manager has been part of the British Council sponsored International Publishing Fellowship in India. This included a January trip to Jaipur Literature Festival where she represented the PBS at Jaipur BookMark. We are hopeful that one of the outcomes of the trip will be a one-off India focused publication for members and the wider poetry readership. Watch this space! If you’d like something to pique your interest in poetry from India, as part of this fellowship we hosted a brilliant online event at Kolkata’s International Poetry Festival, featuring recent Choice Sandeep Parmar which is now available to view on our website.
Back to the Spring 2023 selections. No difficult second book here, three of the selections are much anticipated second collections from Jason Allen-Paisant, this season’s Choice, Liz Berry and Will Harris. These are accompanied by Sarala Estruch’s debut and a posthumous collection from Carole Satyamurti. I was particularly struck by the Translation Choice Voice of the Two Shores from Agnès Agboton which is presented in three languages: the original Gun (a language of Benin) translated by the poet into Spanish then translated by Lawrence Schimel into English – what a journey!
I can’t write about all the books, the selectors and poets do a much better job. It’s an intriguing group of selections and reviewed titles. We expect many members will order up copies and use their 25% member discount wisely. I certainly have them all on my shelf now!
Many congratulations to our Metro Poetry Prize winner J.E. Neary and runners-up Susan Shepherd, Helen Kay and Jane Burn. You can read their winning poems on display at Longbenton Metro station. Come March in Newcastle we also have a brilliant event in partnership with Newcastle Centre for the Literary Arts featuring the last two Choice poets, Jason Allen-Paisant and Safiya Kamaria Kinshasa. Safiya will combine poetry and dance which promises to be a wonderful experience. Thanks as always for your support, we really appreciate our PBS members and look forward to arranging more in-person events in the future where we can actually meet face to face.
SOPHIE O’NEILL
PBS & INPRESS DIRECTOR
PBS CHOICE: JASON ALLEN-PAISANT
Jason Allen-Paisant is a poet and academic from Jamaica. He holds a DPhil in Medieval and Modern Languages from the University of Oxford and works as a senior lecturer in Critical Theory and Creative Writing at the University of Manchester. He’s the author of two poetry collections Thinking with Trees (Carcanet Press, 2021), winner of the 2022 OCM Bocas Prize for poetry, and Self-Portrait as Othello (Carcanet Press, 2023). His monograph Engagements with Aimé Césaire will be published by Oxford University Press in 2023, and his non-fiction book Scanning the Bush will be out with Hutchinson Heinemann in 2024. He lives in Leeds with his wife and two children.
SELF-PORTRAIT AS OTHELLO
CARCANET | £12.99 | PBS PRICE £9.75– PBS CHOICE, SPRING 2023
Afropean was a book by Johny Pitts, a discourse about being wholly black in a European landscape. In Self-Portrait as Othello, we continue this conversation, embarking on a journey across Europe, interspersed with hauntings, absent fathers, and a mother passing away.
Your silence is a haunting, brothers are wanting,
people are waiting to hear. I conjure you
furiously.
Allen-Paisant conjures up the character of Othello, who steps out of Shakespeare’s imagination and embodies the narrator of these poems, as he walks into clubs and theatres and along the streets of Paris, Prague and Oxford. If I were to take inspiration from Mutabaruka’s song Gimmie Mi Dis Gimmie Mi Dat, I would say “gimmie mi back, Otello who you lambast and abuse, mek mi gee him dignity and life infused.”
Holding Les Fleurs du Mal by Charles Baudelaire in his hands, we experience alienation at the heart of the city. Another act of alienation is language but Allen-Paisant sets us free, speaking in tongues, patois, French and English; a hunger for an alternative narrative (outside the European gaze) for stories and the liquid of language:
show me the hidden side of the script I want
the kind of life that can be read
not piddling paltry mooching along instead
why do I always have to be translated
Where Thinking with Trees was an exploration of Black identity and its connection to the environment, Self-Portrait as Othello moves from the rural to the Metropole. In ‘Place De La Nation’ we’re reminded that the act of being, of existing, is often a dangerous act for Black bodies, as the narrator sees:
...two beautiful dark-skinned children
