Join us to celebrate Anthony Joseph’s new collection Haunting The Black Air, with Keith Jarrett, plus readings from Page of Wands + open mic
We’re so excited to welcome Anthony Joseph to Lala Books to celebrate his newest collection Haunting The Black Air. Join us for an evening of readings from Anthony, plus special guest Keith Jarrett, with additional readings from Page of Wands and open mic.
Haunting the Black Air is a bold, dextrous and versatile new collection spanning the emotional spectrum of unabashed joy and crippling grief. Across London, New York, Trinidad and beyond, whether a funeral in New Cross or a house party in Mount Lambert, Joseph brings heart, soul and verbal ingenuity to the act of unifying life’s beautiful fragments.
Anthony Joseph is a Trinidad-born poet, novelist, academic and musician. His 2022 collection Sonnets for Albert was awarded the T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry and the OCM BOCAS Prize for Poetry. He is the author of four poetry collections and three novels, and has been shortlisted for the Republic of Consciousness Prize, the Royal Society of Literature’s Encore Award and the OCM Bocas Prize for Fiction. As a musician, he has released nine critically acclaimed albums, and in 2020 received a Paul Hamlyn Foundation Composers Award. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a Lecturer in Creative Writing at Kings College, London.
Keith Jarrett is a London-based poet, writer and educator. He is a multiple poetry slam champion, and his poem, From the Log Book, was projected onto the façade of St. Paul’s Cathedral and broadcast as a commemorative art installation, Where Light Falls, in 2019. His play, Safest Spot in Town, was performed at the Old Vic and aired on BBC Four. He is the author of two collections, Selah and more recently, Hide Me Under the Blood and I Shall Be Satisfied, was a Poetry Society spring recommendation.
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