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SHORTLISTED FOR THE FORWARD PRIZE FOR POETRY 2022SHORTLISTED FOR THE T.S. ELIOT PRIZE FOR POETRY 2022With Sonnets for Albert, Anthony Joseph returns to the autobiographical material explored in his earlier collection Bird Head Son. In this follow-up, 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.






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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Gold from the Stone
How To Write Poems
States of Happiness
Fresh Out of Dragonflies
I Don't Want This Poem to End: Final Poems and Prose