Episode 10
Brown Atlantis feat. Shivanee Ramlochan
Episode Date: 21 December 2021
Guest: Shivanee Ramlochan
Listen to EpisodeIn this episode of Brown Atlantis we explore with Shivanee Ramlochan the capacity of poetry to speak to the truth beneath the truth of long legacies of indenture and sexual violence, the dark channelling and sorcery in bearing witness, the queerness of running through Caribbean fields of cane, and Shah Rukh Khan’s hair.
Shivanee Ramlochan is a Trinidadian poet and essayist. Her first book of poems, Everyone Knows I Am a Haunting (Peepal Tree Press, 2017) was a finalist for the 2018 People’s Choice T&T Book of the Year, and was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection. Shivanee was shortlisted for the 2018 Bridport Prize for Poetry. “The Red Thread Cycle”, from her debut collection, won a Small Axe Literary Competition Prize for Poetry (second-place), and was on audiovisual display at the National Art Gallery of the Bahamas in 2019. She has received residencies from Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Millay Arts, and Catapult Caribbean Arts Grant. She has served as a poetry reader and editorial judge for Commonwealth Writers, Honeysuckle Press, Moko Magazine, and others. Her second book, a non-fiction narrative on Indo-Caribbean women’s disobedience, is forthcoming from Noemi Press in 2022.
