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Jason Allen-Paisant & Colin Grant on Aimé Césaire

Jason Allen-Paisant & Colin Grant on Aimé Césaire

Update: 2024-11-27
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Aimé Césaire’s masterpiece of exile and homecoming, Return to my Native Land – beautifully translated by John Berger – is now a Penguin Classic. To celebrate, Jason Allen-Paisant (who has written the introduction for the new edition) and Colin Grant discuss the poem. Allen-Paisant’s most recent poetry collection, Self-Portrait as Othello (Carcanet), won both the T.S. Eliot Prize and the Forward Prize for Best First Collection; Colin Grant is director of WritersMosaic, a division of the Royal Literary Fund, his most recent book is a memoir, I’m Black So You Don’t Have to Be (Jonathan Cape).

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Jason Allen-Paisant & Colin Grant on Aimé Césaire

Jason Allen-Paisant & Colin Grant on Aimé Césaire