Shivanee Ramlochan
Poet
Shivanee Ramlochan’s first book of poems, Everyone Knows I Am a Haunting (Peepal Tree Press, 2017) was a finalist for the 2018 People’s Choice T&T Book of the Year, and shortlisted for the Felix Dennis Forward Prize for Best First Collection. Shivanee was shortlisted for the 2018 Bridport Prize for Poetry. “The Red Thread Cycle”, from her debut collection, won a Small Axe Literary Competition Prize for Poetry, and was on audiovisual display at the National Art Gallery of the Bahamas. Find her work online at www.novelniche.net, shivaneeramlochan.com, @novelniche
Bocas Breakthrough Fellows Showcase
Readings from works in progress by the five 2024 Bocas Breakthrough Fellows: June Aming, Heather Barker, Stephanie Koathes, Rhea Manley, and Amílcar Sanatan. Introduced by Shivanee Ramlochan.In partnership with Creative Caribbean.
Readings from works in progress by the five 2024 Bocas Breakthrough Fellows: June Aming, Heather Barker, Stephanie Koathes, Rhea Manley, and Amílcar Sanatan. Introduced by Shivanee Ramlochan.
In partnership with Creative Caribbean.
One on One with Dionne Brand
Nomenclature: New and Collected Poems firmly establishes Dionne Brand as one of the major poets writing in any language today. Ranging from her experience of the Grenada Revolution to the Iraq War of the early 1990s to the catastrophes of the burning present, these poems combine an acute political awareness with deep formal experiment. She joins Shivanee Ramlochan for a wide-ranging conversation about literary commitment.Nomenclature: New and Collected Poems firmly establishes Dionne Brand as one of the major poets writing in any language today. Ranging from her experience of the Grenada Revolution to the Iraq War of the early 1990s to the catastrophes of the burning present, these poems combine an acute political awareness with deep formal experiment. She joins Shivanee Ramlochan for a wide-ranging conversation about literary commitment.