Print subscriptions Sign in Search jobs Search UK edition The Guardian - Back to home Support the Guardian Fearless, independent, reader-funded Support us News Opinion Sport Culture Lifestyle Show More Film Music TV & radio Books Art & design Stage Games Classical Glorious resistance … Kalungi Ssebandeke as Othello at the Watermill theatre, Newbury. Photograph: Marc Brenner Poetry roundup Poetry Review The best recent poetry – review roundup Self-Portrait As Othello by Jason Allen-Paisant; A Tower Built Downwards by Yang Lian; Artifice by Lavinia Singer; Master of Distances by Jordi Doce; Customs by Solmaz Sharif Fiona Sampson Fri 31 Mar 2023 12.00 BST Self-Portrait As Othello by Jason Allen-Paisant ( Carcanet, £12.99 ) This indispensable collection explores Shakespeare’s pernicious archetype, observing how “the Moor remains invisible, despite the obsession with his body”. Yet Allen-Paisant makes the historical impasse an occasion for deep, generous interrogation of masculi