{"product_id":"9781800173101-self-portrait-as-othello","title":"Self-Portrait as Othello","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis second collection from the 2022 OCM Bocas Poetry Prize winner re-imagines Shakespeare’s Othello for the modern age, intertwining the identities of 'immigrant' and 'Black'.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShortlisted for the Writers' Prize 2024\u003cbr\u003e               Shortlisted for the Jhalak Prize 2024\u003cbr\u003e               Longlisted for the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature 2024\u003cbr\u003e               Winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize 2023\u003cbr\u003e               Winner of the Forward Prize for Best Collection 2023\u003cbr\u003e               The Poetry Book Society Spring Choice 2023\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e               \u003cstrong\u003eA \u003cem\u003eGuardian \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eThe Irish Times\u003c\/em\u003e Book of the Year\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e               \u003cbr\u003e               Jason Allen-Paisant's debut collection \u003cem\u003eThinking With Trees\u003c\/em\u003e won the 2022 OCM Bocas Prize for poetry and was an\u003cem\u003e Irish Times \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eWhite Review\u003c\/em\u003e Book of the Year 2021. In \u003cem\u003ePoetry London\u003c\/em\u003e Maryam Hessavi wrote, 'Jason Allen-Paisant is uncompromising when digging down through the undergrowth of our imperialist past – and yet he succeeds in replanting new narratives in the same soil where these toxic ideologies used to, and still, reside.'\u003cbr\u003e               The interlocking poems of his second collection, \u003cem\u003eSelf-Portrait as Othello\u003c\/em\u003e, imagine Othello in the urban landscapes of modern London, Paris and Venice and invent the kinds of narrative he might tell about his intersecting identities. Poetic memoir and ekphrastic experiment, \u003cem\u003eSelf-Portrait as Othello\u003c\/em\u003e focuses on a character at once fictional and real. Othello here represents a structure of feeling that was emerging in seventeenth-century Venice, and is still with us.\u003cbr\u003e               Portraiting himself as Othello, Allen-Paisant refracts his European travels and considers the Black male body, its presence, transgressiveness and vulnerabilities. Othello's intertwined identities as 'immigrant' and 'Black', which often operate as mutually reinforcing vectors, speak to us in the landscape of twenty-first-century Europe.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40690442109025,"sku":"9781800173101","price":10.23,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_35898371_4e907a03-246e-4ebc-bd2a-963dcda543b9.jpg?v=1756932767","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781800173101-self-portrait-as-othello","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}