Winner of the Poetry Category OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean
Literature 2022. An Irish Times Best Poetry Books of 2021. A White
Review Book of the Year 2021. Jason Allen-Paisant grew up in a
village in central Jamaica. 'Trees were all around,' he writes, 'we
often went to the yam ground, my grandmother's cultivation plot.
When I think of my childhood, I see myself entering a deep woodland
with cedars and logwood all around. [...] The muscular guango trees
were like beings among whom we lived.' Now he lives in Leeds, near
a forest where he goes walking. 'Here, trees represent an
alternative space, a refuge from an ultra-consumerist culture...'
And even as they help him recover his connections with nature,
these poems are inevitably political. As Malika Booker writes,
'Allen-Paisant's poetic ruminations deceptively radicalise
Wordsworth's pastoral scenic daffodils. The collection racializes
contemporary ecological poetics and its power lies in
Allen-Paisant's subtle destabilization of the ordinary dog walker's
right to space, territory, property and leisure by positioning the
colonised Black male body's complicated and unsafe reality in these
spaces.'
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