The Wanderers

Author: Lal Balkaransingh, Satnarine Balkaransingh
Genre: Poetry

Synopsis

The Wanderers (Bathohiya), a dual poetry collection by Satnarine Balkaransingh featuring thirty poems by his late brother Lal Balkaransingh, covers numerous aspects of Indo-Caribbean culture, and more broadly, of the Trinidad and Tobago historical journey since the First Peoples. Drawing on Balkaransingh’s training as a Kathak classical dancer, many of the poems retain innate musicality, and contain performance-based elements. These verses range from profound meditations on the roots of each of T&T’s ethnic groups, to the traditions of East Indian immigrants, representing a generous and expansive view of Caribbean experience.