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Alice Yard, Trinidad, in 2014

Photo by Andre Bagoo from his blog entry “Find or make your space”

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Sooo, this happened last Tuesday…for PrideTT 2018, I presented 90-ish minutes of the history of Queer Theater in Trinidad at DRINK! Wine Bar, along with Andre Bagoo, Anthony Medina, Kevin Humphrey, Aurora Tardieu and Kyle Richardson. Standing Room Only. One Night Only. LGBTTQQIAAP2S. Pride Month 2018. Best. Time. Ever. Photos by @andrebagoo

[andrebagoo]

EVEN before we see it, we learn of it. It is endless, we are told. The largest asphalt lake on the planet, its pitch goes all over the world. Some say it has been used to pave the road in front of Buckingham Palace; others the tarmac at La Guardia Airport in New York. What better symbol was available to me when the time came to title my third book of poems, a book that places Trinidad at the rim of a bristling world? Everybody in Trinidad learns about the Pitch Lake in school. But few Trinis actually set foot on its strange surface; see its swathes of tar, water and mud; bathe among the lilies in its sulphur ponds; witness its effulgent discharges. Somehow we don’t need to. We have an idea of it in our mind, just as things we have never experienced can inhabit us powerfully. - from an essay on the Pitch Lake and the genesis of my third book of poems, published in the Sunday Newsday of April 9th, 2017. http://www.newsday.co.tt/features/0,242125.html

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OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature 2021 shortlist announced.

OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature 2021 shortlist announced.

Maisy Card, Andre Bagoo, and Canisia Lubrin make up the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature 2021 shortlist announced on Sunday, March 28, 2021. The OCM (One Caribbean Media) Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature is an annual award for literary books by Caribbean writers, first presented in 2011. Books are judged in three categories: poetry; fiction — both novels and collections of short…

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[andrebagoo]

Readings in March - London

* Tuesday 13 March 2018, 7:30pm: Shearsman Books reading, alongside Laurie Duggan and Carol Watts Swedenborg Hall, 20/21 Bloomsbury Way, London WC1A 2TH

* Saturday 17 March 2018, 7.30pm: Poem Brut at Rich Mix II 35-47 Bethnal Green Rd, London E1 6LA. With SJ Fowler, Chrissy Williams, Lavinia Singer, Matvei Yankelevich, Julia Rose Lewis, Julia Schuster, Olga Moskvina, Oliver Mayeux, Mischa Foster Poole, Ruhi Parmar Amin and more! 

[andrebagoo]

Pitch Lake

life on another planet things we can’t explain   black tarpaulin       quicksand              skin    sulfurous mother   times change they stay the same    the lake won’t end

- Poems from Pitch Lake (Peepal Tree Press, 2017) in the latest issue of Vivek Narayanan's Almost Island, alongside work by Jee Leong Koh, Jibanananda Das and much good company. http://bit.ly/2gklreN

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Dancer Mikyle Chaitsingh, Flautist Martina Chow, Artist Wendy Nanan and Writer/Poet Andre Bagoo after the performance of "SHELLS" a response to the work of Wendy Nanan presented by Andre Bagoo.

Also Wendy Nanan chats with Peter Minshall.