Sonnets for Albert by Anthony Joseph Paperback Book 9781526649942

WINNER OF THE T S ELIOT PRIZE FOR POETRY 2022SHORTLISTED FOR THE FORWARD PRIZE FOR POETRY 2022LONGLISTED FOR THE OCM BOCAS PRIZE 2023With Sonnets for Albert Anthony Joseph returns to the autobiographical material explored in his earlier collection Bird Head Son In this followup he weighs the impact of being the son of an absent or mostly absent father Though these poems threaten to break under the weight of their emotions they are always masterfully poised as the stylish man they depict