jason allen-paisant
@jallenpaisant.bsky.social
Poet. Winner of the TS Eliot Prize. THE POSSIBILITY OF TENDERNESS out now. Feticeiro da Jamaica 🇯🇲.
In our latest subscriber exclusive, @jallenpaisant.bsky.social speaks to Tallulah Brennan about the poetic impulses of the Caribbean, vernacular intimacy with plants, and soil as an emblem of life & death steady.page/en/caughtbyt... Author photo: Ferrante Ferrante
The Possibility of Tenderness by @jallenpaisant.bsky.social is a Jamaican memoir of plants & dreams, a stunningly written book combining the author's personal story of migration and natural history in an immersive tale of land, environment, and the world of plants. Buy here: buff.ly/hBOJv5m 💙📚
Catch me soon in Brooklyn, if you’re nearby! I am so looking forward to this event—my first bookshop reading in the US. And my books being published in North America for the 1st time!!🚀
Grist@grist.org · last yr.Excited to welcome poet Jason Allen-Paisant to The Astoria Bookshop (Queens) for The Possibility of Tenderness, in convo w/ Sangamithra Iyer. Sun Sept 7, 6–7 PM. RSVP: RSVP here: astoriabookshop.com/events/34191... #Books #NYC #Climate #Queens
Listening to two masters of language here! @jallenpaisant.bsky.social and Kimberly Campanello launching Kimberly’s book, USE THE WORDS YOU HAVE Having seen her performing poetry over the years, I’m delighted to finally speak to her for the Rippling Pages this week!
Just finished The Possibility of Tenderness by @jallenpaisant.bsky.social and now cannot wait to interview him at @deershed.bsky.social next month. Enriching, enlightening, enraging, beauty on every page, absolutely magnificent. 🌺
"A one-sided relationship is developing quite well between you and me." @jallenpaisant.bsky.social performs Wisława Szymborska's "The Silence of Plants" in the seventh film in a new series created with @writersmosaic.bsky.social. www.brinkerhoffpoetry.org/poems/the-si...
Jason Allen-Paisant reads "The Silence of Plants" by Wisława Szymborska
A one-sided relationship is developing quite well
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"Listen there is nothing as exhilarating as the feeling of life coming into you" @jallenpaisant.bsky.social performs his poem "Right Now I'm Standing" in the third film in a new series created with @writersmosaic.bsky.social. www.brinkerhoffpoetry.org/poems/right-...
Jason Allen-Paisant reads "Right Now I'm Standing"
Right now I’m standing beneath what used to be
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#bocas2025 Day 3 featured author panels with: @jallenpaisant.bsky.social, Erna Brodber, Lawrence Scott, Anthony Vahni Capildeo; Lovelace at 90 film screenings; and more! Full album: facebook.com/media/set?va... #alwayscominghome
In their writings about rural Jamaica — its people, landscapes, and overlooked histories — @jallenpaisant.bsky.social and #ErnaBrodber show how personal and communal stories are shaped by, but also help shape, bigger narratives. #bocas2025 #alwayscominghome #caribbeanwriters #caribbeanstories
Registration is open! Designed for budding, emerging, and established writers, workshops focused on craft have been staples of our annual literary festival, and this year there are four! www.bocaslitfest.com/programme/wo... @jallenpaisant.bsky.social @alycia.bsky.social #bocas2025 #alwayscominghome
Fellow White folks, get this as an audio book, to have @jallenpaisant.bsky.social's voice in your ear when you look at the world. Listen and learn to see. With the general threat to knowledge from the evil clowns that rule this world, learning lies in the communities we can create.
What creative instruments does nature give us, to shape and reflect on the world we inhabit? Guide your environmentally informed writing (in any genre) to its next level with @jallenpaisant.bsky.social and @alycia.bsky.social: bocaslitfest.com/events/this-... #bocas2025 @britishcouncil.bsky.social
The fab @jallenpaisant.bsky.social has got a new book out! Got to get my hands on it! Check out his chat in the Guardian: www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
Poet Jason Allen-Paisant: ‘We belong in the picture’
The Jamaican-born author on exploring nature and black identity in his nonfiction debut, his chaotic writing habits, and how the TS Eliot prize changed his life
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Really love this weeks Start The Week with @jallenpaisant.bsky.social @samanthaellis.bsky.social and Abdulrazak Gurnah, on food, soil, migration, and memory www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Start the Week - Abdulrazak Gurnah on family and resistance - BBC Sounds
Abdulrazak Gurnah, Samantha Ellis and Jason Allen-Paisant with Shahidha Bari.
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Truly proud (and still a little stunned!) to be the subject of today’s OBSERVER Books Interview. Huge thanks for the space and the care. lnkd.in/eWqGvHHw Tomorrow, I’ll be on BBC Radio 4’s Start the Week to speak about the book. Tune in!
Elfreda, so happy that you’re reading this. I hope you enjoy it.
@elfredah.bsky.social · 2y agoIt arrived yesterday!
THE POSSIBILITY OF TENDERNESS is officially published today. A gift to myself, and hopefully, to you. May it fly, may it soar. So much love for my people who showed up and showed out—and to the new connections and fellowships this book is bringing into my life. 1/2
Heading into the nation’s capital. Look at me casually going to launch my book in London tonight though!…This latest one is partly about my wild journey… People, I’m all fired up and I’m ready.💥💥💥 #ThePossibilityofTenderness
LONDON fam (and nearby), don’t sleep on this one!: The London launch of THE POSSIBILITY of TENDERNESS is Thursday 29th March. Get your tickets here: brixtonhouse.co.uk/shows/an-eve...
This weekend only: Get THE POSSIBILITY OF TENDERNESS for 25% off at Waterstones!
Some of the incredible endorsements my publishers have received for THE POSSIBILITY OF TENDERNESS. 🌟🌟🌟 From Coffee Grove, Jamaica to bookshelves near you, THE POSSIBILITY OF TENDERNESS is out soon 🛒 www.penguin.co.uk/books/455724...
Announced events for THE POSSIBILITY OF TENDERNESS. 📍 Manchester 5th March—in conversation with Monique Roffey. 🎟 (www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/jason-alle...) 📍 London – Brixton House 19th March—in conv. with Jacqueline Crooks. 🎟 (brixtonhouse.co.uk/shows/an-eve...) Hope to see you there!
Repost @HutchHeinemann ‘We are thrilled to unveil the cover of THE POSSIBILITY OF TENDERNESS by @jallenpaisant, a captivating journey where the world of plants and the echoes of history come together to create a story of land, dreams and belonging.’ Pre-order: www.penguin.co.uk/books/455724...
Good to have had the opportunity at the LRB Bookshop to discuss Aimé Césaire’s RETURN TO MY NATIVE LAND, which I edited and introduced in the Penguin Modern Classics series. I was in conversation with Colin Grant.
Greetings! I’m Jason Allen-Paisant. My writing explores the intersections of history, heritage, & aesthetics in the African diaspora, & how our bodies, memories, and environments interweave to form pathways for liberation, escape, & renewal. Out in March—my new book THE POSSIBILITY OF TENDERNESS.
