An Evening with Writer and Musician Dr. Anthony Joseph
Oct 2025
14
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Join the Department of English and Creative Writing as they host Dr. Anthony Joseph, a London-residing Trinidadian writer and musician. Dr. Joseph will discuss literature and music of the African diaspora.
Dr Anthony Joseph F.R.S.L. is an award winning Trinidad-born poet, novelist,
academic and musician. He is the author of five poetry collections and three
novels. His 2018 novel Kitch: A Fictional Biography of a Calypso Icon was
shortlisted for the Republic of Consciousness Prize, the Royal Society of
Literature’s Encore Award and the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Fiction. His
most recent fiction publication is the experimental novel The Frequency of
Magic. In 2019, he was awarded a Jerwood Compton Poetry Fellowship. 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.
academic and musician. He is the author of five poetry collections and three
novels. His 2018 novel Kitch: A Fictional Biography of a Calypso Icon was
shortlisted for the Republic of Consciousness Prize, the Royal Society of
Literature’s Encore Award and the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Fiction. His
most recent fiction publication is the experimental novel The Frequency of
Magic. In 2019, he was awarded a Jerwood Compton Poetry Fellowship. 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 2022 collection Sonnets for Albert won the T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry
2022 and the OCM BOCAS Prize for Caribbean Poetry.
On Campus Accessibility Accommodations:
Contact Kirsten Schramm at 847-735-5167 or kschramm@lakeforest.edu at least 72 hours in advance.
