British/Trinidadian writer and musician Anthony Joseph will be in concert— “The Caribbean is everywhere” —with Roger Raspail and Dave Okumu, at Philharmonie de Paris (Cité de la musique, 221 Avenue Jean-Jaurès) on Saturday, May 17, 2025, at 8:00pm.
- Anthony Joseph, singer
- Harvey Grant, keyboard, machines, piano
- Byron Wallen, trumpet
- Roger Raspail, percussion
- Dave Okumu, bass, guitar
- Leo Taylor, drum kit
Dr Anthony Joseph F.R.S.L. is an award winning Trinidad-born poet, novelist, academic and musician. He is the author of five poetry collections and three novels. His 2018 novel Kitch: A Fictional Biography of a Calypso Icon was shortlisted for the Republic of Consciousness Prize, the Royal Society of Literature’s Encore Award and the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Fiction. His most recent fiction publication is the experimental novel The Frequency of Magic. In 2019, he was awarded a Jerwood Compton Poetry Fellowship. As a musician, he has released eight critically acclaimed albums, and in 2020 received a Paul Hamlyn Foundation Composers Award. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a Lecturer in Creative Writing at Kings College, London.
His 2022 collection Sonnets for Albert won the T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry 2022 and the OCM BOCAS Prize for Caribbean Poetry.
For tickets, see https://philharmoniedeparis.fr/en/activite/27258
For more on the artist, see https://www.anthonyjoseph.co.uk/
[Photo above by Spencer McPherson.]