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Jamaican poet and academic Jason Allen-Paisant has won the UK’s most prestigious poetry prize with his second collection Self-Portrait as Othello.
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Allen-Paisant told the BBC that he wanted to delve into Shakespeare’s text and understand Othello from a different perspective.
“How did he come to Venice? What’s really driving this thing that people characterise as madness?”
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