Saturday 12 April, 2014, 8 pm Alice Yard, 80 Roberts Street, Woodbrook, Port of Spain Douen Islands is an ongoing, open collaborative project — featuring writers, poets, musicians, artists, photographers, and others — first launched on All Hallow’s Eve, 2013, by poet Andre Bagoo and designer Kriston Chen. On Saturday 12 April, Alice Yard will
Two writers from Jamaica and one writer from Trinidad and Tobago have made the shortlist for the 2014 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature. From a longlist of ten titles in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction, the prize judges have chosen a winning book in each genre category. Kei Miller’s Writing Down the Vision was chosen
By Shivanee Ramlochan, 2014 Bocas Lit fest blogger A chilly Woodbrook evening beneath the stars, in Alice Yard’s plein air art and culture space: this was the setting for a special literary event showcasing Trinidad and Tobago’s writing talent, on March 25th. This year’s NGC Bocas Lit Fest is a mere four weeks away, as
By Shivanee Ramlochan, 2014 Bocas Lit fest blogger Published by Peepal Tree Press in 2013. “I am from Choppers, chicken coops and cuatros. I am from the flickering flame of a deya, blue at the wick, luminous, smelling of kerosene. I am from the tiny engine of a hummingbird revving its wings in front of
Tuesday 25 March, 2014, 8 pm Alice Yard, 80 Roberts Street, Woodbrook, Port of Spain The NGC Bocas Lit Fest presents an evening of new and recent fiction from five Trinidadian writers, as part of the programme for the Diasporic Literary Archives workshop in Port of Spain. 2013 OCM Bocas Prizewinner Monique Roffey will join
By Shivanee Ramlochan, 2014 Bocas Lit fest blogger Published by Akashic Books in 2013. “All-in-a-sudden a rocket – launched from the ship’s foredeck – shot screaming into the air. Leaving behind its smoky corkscrew trail. Bursting with a loud pap! above the ship. It scattered a hundred bright blue sparks cross the sky, descending through
Tobago gets a new festival of literary and oral traditions! The first annual NGC Bocas Lit Fest Tobago is to take place on 28th and 29th March. Organizers of the NGC Bocas Lit Fest, in collaboration with the Tobago Word Festival Committee and the Tobago Writers Guild, have created a 2-day event of readings, performance,
By Shivanee Ramlochan, 2014 Bocas Lit fest blogger Published by the University of Chicago Press, 2013. “From 1838 to 1917, half a million Indians travelled to the Caribbean to grow and cut sugarcane. That migration had put thousands of kilometres and an even greater psychological distance between me and the village women whose tears at
Two emerging Jamaican writers, one from Grenada, one from St. Vincent and the Grenadines, and four from Trinidad and Tobago are the eight finalists for the much-coveted 2014 Hollick Arvon Caribbean Writers Prize, now in its second year. They are: Turn Around, Judy Antoine, Grenada Let It Fly, Melissa Balgobin, Trinidad and Tobago Split Level,
By Shivanee Ramlochan, 2014 Bocas Lit fest blogger Published by Peepal Tree Press, 2013. “You can drive around the entire island in one day. A place where lush fauna and young girls flourish, sticks beat steel pan and a woman’s waters break each minute, sunshine sprawls heat onto curvy cliff roads till rainy season slings
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