Derron Sandy
Spoken Word Poet
Derron Sandy is a Trinbagonian spoken word poet, and the 2021 First Citizens National Poetry Slam champion. He was longlisted for the Bocas Lit Fest’s Johnson and Amoy Achong Caribbean Writers Prize in 2021. He is artistic director of youth spoken word and theatre organisations the 2Cents Movement and the Quays Foundation. His debut chapbook of poems, The Chaos, was published in 2023.
2:30 pm
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3:30 pm
AV Room, NALIS
Take Three
What can poetry do that other forms of writing can’t? T&T poets Paula Obé Thomas (Remembering her brown head-tie), Ruth Osman (All Made of Longing), and Derron Sandy (The Chaos) read from their work exploring family and ancestry, love, loss, public and private tensions and tenderness, in conversation with Desirée SeebaranWhat can poetry do that other forms of writing can’t? T&T poets Paula Obé Thomas (Remembering her brown head-tie), Ruth Osman (All Made of Longing), and Derron Sandy (The Chaos) read from their work exploring family and ancestry, love, loss, public and private tensions and tenderness, in conversation with Desirée Seebaran