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Jason Allen-Paisant: A Jamaican Memoir of Plants and Dreams

Name: Jason Allen-Paisant: A Jamaican Memoir of Plants and Dreams
Start: 2025-06-14T19:15:00+01:00
End: 2025-06-14T20:15:00+01:00
Location: Buccleuch Marquee

From Jamaica to the UK, Jason Allen-Paisant’s memoir The Possibility of Tenderness reclaims land, legacy & identity. A T.S. Eliot Prize winner, his journey intersects with Harmony House—linking past, poetry, and place across continents.

Saturday, 14 June 2025

7:15pm ‐ 8:15pm

Buccleuch Marquee
Harmony Garden and Orchard, St Mary's Road, Melrose, TD6 9LJ

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From his childhood in Manchester Jamaica, to his professorship at Manchester University UK, this unique memoir traces the history of scholar, poet and thinker Jason Allen-Paisant. Winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize and the Forward Prize for Poetry with Self-Portrait As Othello, Jason’s first non-fiction work, The Possibility of Tenderness, is a fierce reclamation of a link with the land. Coincidently, there is cross pollination with Harmony House and Garden, built by the owner of the Melrose Plantation, which exists in Manchester, Jamaica to this day. Now in the care of the National Trust for Scotland, Harmony has also been reclaimed for us all to enjoy.