Anthony Joseph is a Trinidad-born poet, novelist, academic and musician. His collection Sonnets for Albert (2022) won the T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry and the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Poetry. He is the author of five poetry collections and three novels including Kitch: A Fictional Biography of a Calypso Icon which was shortlisted for the Republic of Consciousness Prize, the Royal Society of Literature’s Encore Award and the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Fiction. As a musician, he has released eight critically acclaimed albums, and in 2020 received a Paul Hamlyn Foundation Composers Award. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a Lecturer in Creative Writing at Kings College, London. His Selected Poems was published in 2024.