Featuring exclusive new work, Precious and Impossible gathers together over three decades of poetry from the T S Eliot Prize-winning Anthony Joseph.

With an introduction by Lauri Scheyer

For over three decades, Anthony Joseph's work has explored the transnational vibrations of the African diaspora. Precious and Impossible brings together thirty years of Joseph's poetry and lyrics - cementing his status as one of our greatest living poets and polymaths

'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

Anthony Joseph is a poet, musician and academic whose work explores the transnational vibrations of the African Diaspora. As well as several poetry collections, a slew of albums, and three novels, Joseph has published critical work exploring the aesthetics of Caribbean Poetry among other subjects. Sonnets for Albert was awarded the 2023 T S Eliot Prize and the OCM Bocas Prize, and was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Poetry.