Andre Bagoo's Blog, page 28

CASCADOO - Voices Under the Trees: slam poetry, Oblique Imp...

CASCADOO - Voices Under the Trees: slam poetry, Oblique Imp crafts @ Hotel Normandie last night. 

"So, with the help of my unknown lovers, I am going to write a story."

“So, with the help of my unknown lovers, I am going to write a story.” - Jean Genet

Some notes on steel-pan poems

Our fingernails are full of tar and dust: 
you came for the oil, and left with our blood. 

-Roger...

"This is a special way of being afraid No trick dispels. Religion used to try, That vast,..."

“This is a special way of being afraid
No trick dispels. Religion used to try,
That vast,...

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"The mercury sank in the mouth of the dying day"

“The mercury sank in the mouth of the dying day” - W.H. Auden

One-line animation of ‘The Night Grew Dark Around Us’, a poem...

One-line animation of ‘The Night Grew Dark Around Us’, a poem from TRICK VESSELS.

I read the poems ‘The Night Grew Dark Around Us’;...

I read the poems ‘The Night Grew Dark Around Us’; ‘A Window At KFC, Frederick Street, Near To A Gaol’ and ‘The Oilbird’ from Trick Vessels in this podcast interview with the poet and critic Vladimir Lucien, done a few days after the Bocas Lit Fest 2012. Big thanks to UWI’sThe Spaces Between Words and its instigators Giselle Rampaul and Ryan Durgasingh for this!

The image above is from an ongoing photometry project with the poet Vahni Capildeo, Disappearing Houses, mentioned in the podcast.

"Perhaps I always knew what they were saying:Even the early messengers who walkedInto my life from..."

“Perhaps I always knew what they were saying:
Even the early messengers who walked
Into my...

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