The Possibility of Tenderness explores personal and people’s history through plants and migration, linking Jamaican and British histories. It highlights social mobility, alternative lifestyles, and insights into land and identity, enriched by the author’s grandmother and local plant life.
Jason Allen-Paisant is a Jamaican writer and multi-award-winning poet. He is the author of two critically acclaimed books of poetry, Thinking with Trees and Self-Portrait as Othello, which won the UK’s two most prestigious poetry awards for 2023 ― the Forward Prize and T.S. Eliot Prize. He is also a Professor of Critical Theory and Creative Writing at the University of Manchester and Associate Editor of Callaloo Literary Journal. Jason lives in Leeds with his partner and two children.