ARGONAUT BOOKS

Debut collection about Blackness, nature, and landscape from a contributor to Carcanet's New Poetries VIII anthology. Reviews 'Allen-Paisant is uncompromising when digging down through the undergrowth of our imperialist past - and yet he succeeds in replanting new narratives in the same soil where these toxic ideologies used to, and still, reside.' Maryam Hessavi, Poetry London'These observant poems lay their burdens down by the rivers of Babylon and try to sing the Lord's song in a strange land. What might it mean for the black body to experience nature...Read More