Bird Head Son

Written over a 5 year period, the autobiographical poems in 'Bird Head Son' cover the poet's '1st life' in Trinidad, beginning with his departure from Trinidad to the UK in 1989, and moving back to his childhood in 1970s Trinidad. Anthony Joseph's last book was the critically acclaimed 'The African Origins of UFOs', this is his first collection of poetry since 1997's 'black surrealist manifesto' Teragaton.