Nicholas Laughlin

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Biography

Nicholas Laughlin is festival and programme director of the Bocas Lit Fest and the former editor of Caribbean Beat and The Caribbean Review of Books. He has published two books of poems,The Strange Years of My Life (2015) and Enemy Luck (2019), and a book of genre-fluid “microtexts”, Bird Machine (2024). He is editor of a collection of early essays by C.L.R. James, Letters from London (2003); a revised and expanded edition of V.S. Naipaul’s family correspondence, Letters Between a Father and Son (2009); and the anthology So Many Islands (2018). He is co-director of Alice Yard, a contemporary art collective based in Port of Spain.

Years Attended

2018 Adult’s Festival Participant, 2019 Adult’s Festival Participant, 2020 Adult’s Festival Participant, 2022 Adult’s Festival Participant, 2022 Bocas UK Tour, 2023 Adult’s Festival Participant, 2025 Adult’s Festival Participant

Nicholas Laughlin

Author/Speaker
Trinidad & Tobago
Events Featuring Nicholas Laughlin
2025
Big Ideas: The Politics of "Home"
Festival Programme Event
Big Ideas Event
Event Date: May 2, 2025 @ 4:00 pm
Old Fire Station
2023
The Swanzy Diaries
Festival Programme Event
Book Launch Event
Event Date: April 30, 2023 @ 1:00 pm
AV Room
2023
2023 Festival Welcome
Festival Programme Event
Event Date: April 28, 2023 @ 10:00 am
Old Fire Station
2022
Winners' Row
Festival Programme Event
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