Desiree Seebaran
Author
Desiree Seebaran is a Trinidadian writer and editor. She is an alum of the Cropper Foundation Residential Workshop for Writers (2010) and the inaugural Moko Magazine Poetry Masterclass (2018). Her work has been shortlisted for the 2014 Small Axe Literary Competition (poetry) and the 2017 Frontier Poetry Award for New Poets Contest. Her poem ‘Picong’ won the 2019 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize for poetry. She was the winner of the 2021 Johnson and Amoy Achong Caribbean Writers Prize.
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