He is the author of two critically acclaimed books of poetry. His debut poetry collection Thinking with Trees won the 2022 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, was shortlisted for the Michael Murphy Memorial Poetry Prize, and was an Irish Times and White Review book of the year. Self-Portrait as Othello, his sophomore book of poems, won the UK’s two most prestigious poetry awards for 2023 — the Forward Prize and T.S. Eliot Prize; it is one of the rare books to have accomplished this feat. His other books include the philosophical treatise Engagements with Aimé Césaire and The Natural World, a collaboration with photographers David Hartt and John Edmonds and curator Nathaniel Stein. He has edited various publications and his work is widely anthologised. His latest publication, The Possibility of Tenderness, a work of literary nonfiction, will be published in March 2025. Jason holds a doctorate in Medieval and Modern Languages from the University of Oxford and was a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Leeds. His recent art collaborators include British painter Chris Ofili, the Manchester Art Gallery and the Cincinnati Art Gallery.