The Teachings of Plants

Jason Allen-Paisant is a Jamaican writer, poet, and scholar who works as an associate professor
of Critical Theory and Creative Writing at the University of Manchester. He’s the author of two critically acclaimed poetry collections: Thinking with Trees, winner of the 2022 OCM Bocas Prize for poetry; and Self-Portrait as Othello, which took both the Forward Prize and the T. S. Eliot Prize for 2023. His philosophical treatise, Engagements with Aimé Césaire: Thinking with Spirits, is published with Oxford University Press, and his creative non-fiction book, The Possibility of Tenderness, will be out with Hutchinson Heinemann in 2025.