By Jason Allen-Paisant
From Self-Portrait as Othello (Carcanet Press, 2023). Jason Allen-Paisant is a Jamaican poet and academic who works as a senior lecturer in Critical Theory and Creative Writing at the University of Manchester.
His first poetry collection was Thinking with Trees (Carcanet Press, 2021), winner of the 2022 OCM Bocas Prize for poetry. His non-fiction book, Scanning the Bush, will be published by Hutchinson Heinemann in 2024. He lives in Leeds with his wife and two children.
