A Portable Paradise is the second poetry collection to win PS1 0,000 give for a journal that makes’ the minds of the a place’
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Roger Robinson’s vision of Trinidad as a “portable paradise” of “white beaches, light-green hills and fresh fish”, has won the British-Trinidadian poet the Royal Society of Literature’s PS1 0,000 Ondaatje prize, which goes to a manipulate that best provokes “the spirit of a place”.
Robinson’s collection, A Portable Paradise, which has already won him the TS Eliot prize, moves from the Grenfell Tower fire to the Windrush generation and the gift of bondage. In its designation song, he writes how “if I speak of Paradise,/ then I’m speaking of my grandmother/ who told me to carry it ever on my person, camouflaged, so/ no one else would know but me”.
Read more: theguardian.com
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