Jason Allen-Paisant: Poet’s Self-Portrait as Othello wins TS Eliot prize

Chair of judges, Paul Muldoon, who has beforehand gained the TS Eliot prize, and fellow judges Sasha Dugdale and Denise Saul, stated: “Self-Portrait as Othello is a guide with giant ambitions which can be met with nice imaginative capability, freshness and technical aptitude.