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Jamaican poet Jason Allen-Paisant reads from winning collection

Jamaican poet and academic Jason Allen-Paisant has won the UK's most prestigious poetry prize with his second collection Self-Portrait as Othello.

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?"