HAUS FÜR POESIE

Jason Allen-Paisant (FRSL) is a Jamaican poet and scholar whose work grapples with issues of living, sensing, and loving in the aftermath of colonial and ecological rupture. His second poetry collection, “Self-Portrait as Othello”, won the Forward Prize for Best Collection and the T. S. Eliot Prize in 2023. He is also the author of the philosophical treatise “Engagements with Aimé Césaire”. A book-length poem, SNOW, is forthcoming with Penguin in 2027. Allen-Paisant serves as Professor of Critical Theory and Creative Writing at the University of Manchester and is currently a fellow at Columbia University’s Institute for Ideas and Imagination in Paris.