This week is the official publication day for MIDNIGHT BESTIARIES. I’d like to thank so many people, including my dear friend Aaron Kent Aaron Kent. I have a few copies, which arrived last week. If you are within Trinidad and want one DM me but only if you love me. 🤎✨

Andre Bagoo (Andre Bagoo) discusses his contribution to the Colonial Countryside Project: youtu.be/30HDdU7w7mo?fe…

‘Even before I set foot in Dyrham Park, I had been there…’ I write about my poem in Peepal Tree Press’s COLONIAL COUNTRYSIDE publication over at peepaltreepress.com/blog/guest-blo… ✨🌳🦌

Happy National Poetry Day! Thrilled to be launching the Grassroots issue of Magma 90 with co-editor Patrizia and celebrating 30 years of Magma Poetry at the Farsight Collective. Tickets here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/magma-90-gra…

I have a new poetry sequence — ‘The Inheritance’ — in the latest issue of MĀNOA Journal, published by the University of Hawaii Press, guest edited by Rajiv Mohabir in an assemblage called Karahee from the Canefields: Writing from the Coolie Diaspora. 🙏🏾

Amid the discussion about bullying in schools, I write about the one form of bullying you won’t hear policymakers talk about: newsday.co.tt/2024/10/13/the…

COMMENTARY THERE IS one fact about bullying in schools you will not hear religious leaders, politicians or their ilk talk about. newsday.co.tt/2024/10/13/the…

“The Equal Opportunity Act permits discrimination based on sexual orientation. It is not that the legislation merely omits this kind of discrimination... It goes out of its way to tell courts they are not to assume this group of people is protected.” Andre Bagoo Awful.

I review new books by Safia Elhillo, Sean O’Brien, and the Italian poet Ilaria Boffa in the latest issue of MAGMA 90: Grassroots Magma Poetry Thank you editors Lisa Kelly, Patrizia Longhitano and Aoife Lyall Aoife Lyall 🙏🏾🌱✨

‘Eventually, we dream the real.’ From the fantastical to folklore and more — join me today at 11am on Tobago Updates for Book Club Corner with Jewel Green as I chat about and read scary poems from MIDNIGHT BESTIARIES. 🐈‍⬛✨ 📷 Azriel Boodram

Here's link to book itself. Sincerest thanks to Aaron Kent, Andre Bagoo, & @stu_mcpherson_ for all your hard work editing, promoting, & distributing my 2nd volume of poetry! brokensleepbooks.com/product-page/e… #poetry #cinema #IsabelleHuppert #JulietteBinoche #CelineSciamma #VickyKrieps

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‘Who gets to be real? Who gets to be fully human—which nations and which relationships?’ —Thank you Tevin Gall for this roaring interview on MIDNIGHT BESTIARIES over at LoopTT!🙏🏾 📷 Azriel Boodram tt.loopnews.com/content/andre-…

Andre Bagoo's new poetry collection, Midnight Bestiaries, explores Caribbean identity in a unique way. tt.loopnews.com/content/andre-…

I review Michael Nott’s magisterial new 720-page biography, THOM GUNN: A COOL QUEER LIFE, over at Wild Court. Thank you editor Robert Selby. 📚🖋️

"What is clear from this essential biography is that Gunn’s was a queer life that refuses to settle into any neat narrative." Andre Bagoo reviews ‘Thom Gunn: A Cool Queer Life’ by Michael Nott: wildcourt.co.uk/causes-in-time…

It truly is the most wonderful time of the year! Grab a copy of our 2024 anthology, featuring extracts from every book we published in 2024. Yippee! brokensleepbooks.com/product-page/b…