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Jason Allen-Paisant

Jason Allen-Paisant is a Jamaican poet and non-fiction writer based in the UK. He is the author of Thinking with Trees, and of the forthcoming memoir Primitive Child: On Blackness, Landscape and Reclaiming Time. He is also an Associate Professor in Aesthetic Theory at the University of Leeds.

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Essays & Memoir | Issue 159
Essays & Memoir | Issue 159

Joy and Insecurity in Port-au-Prince

Jason Allen-Paisant

‘The body is the first measurement of time: to reclaim time is to reclaim the body.’

Jason Allen-Paisant in Haiti.

Essays & Memoir | Issue 157 padlock
Essays & Memoir | Issue 157 padlock

Primitive Child

Jason Allen-Paisant

‘My roots seemed to be in the ocean; the ocean being symbolic of my absent father.’

Memoir by Jason Allen-Paisant.

Poetry | Issue 154 padlock
Poetry | Issue 154 padlock

Naming

Jason Allen-Paisant

‘I have started to see that nothing is itself’

Poetry | The Online Edition
Poetry | The Online Edition

Two Poems

Jason Allen-Paisant

‘in iron lignum vitae / wind and leaves / keep memory’

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