https://shivaneeramlochan.com Shivanee Ramlochan Sat, 01 Jul 2017 03:01:15 +0000 https://shivaneeramlochan.com en http://shivaneeramlochan.com/Everyone-Knows-I-Am-a-Haunting Sat, 01 Jul 2017 03:01:15 +0000 Shivanee Ramlochan 189420 <img width="1594" height="2433" width_o="1594" height_o="2433" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/2c5dbb583bfa44f78efd1491b28d652a524ca1d801b9f18e84391588ea6a4501/EveryoneHaunting_Shiv_Ramlo_Cover_EarlierSketch.jpg" data-mid="247345" border="0" /> ADVANCE PRAISEfor &nbsp;Everyone Knows I Am a Haunting “In transgressive mode, Shivanee Ramlochan invokes gods, goddesses or demons to do what poetry should do -- alarm and ignite us, surprise and blast us and tear at our heartstrings. Welcome to a challenging, unforgettable and courageous new voice.” &nbsp; — Olive Senior, author of The Pain Tree “Ramlochan’s poetry slays whoever would force an ‘identity’ on it. It alchemizes the roles of grandmothers, abortionists, labourers, clerks, dancers, policemen, cousins, rapists into the greatest intensity of human. The world fucked the Caribbean archipelago, where European-derived shepherdesses and pre-Abrahamic Lilith now wander as peers among manifold beings. The music is consonantal, full of pleasure/pain. Rich as a García Márquez novel, these are uncompromising conversations, intimacy wrestling survival.” — Vahni Capildeo, author of Measures of Expatriation “These poems crackle with soucouyant ire and the voices of duennes in stanzas so bewitching you will not want to look away. Against a Hindu, Muslim and Christian background, abortionists, rapists, ancestors, and deities incarnate as grief. Surprise awaits in tightly wrought lines that are “no accidental shrine” to ancestry, femininity, and filial devotion. Always some darkness casts shadows against the beauty of love. Always the ghost of a story beckons the reader close.” — Rajiv&nbsp;Mohabir, author of The Cowherd’s Son and The Taxidermist’s Cut “This debut book is a subversive tour-de-force, a poetry of Holi powder and sarisilk drifting with beauty; of flayed predators, persistent hunger and thirst, broken bodies of daughters and sons; of cultural keep-down, wedding-weep, rape-ache, and the raw dreaming of rebel lovers; of abeerstreaked bodies’ sex-throb and split and Kali hex words brutally gleaming in the moonlit museum. These stunning poems fiercely and inventively wrestle language of beast, wolf, fishtail, and gods monstrous, singing firesongs of purification for the island dead and survival for the living. In these pages of la sangre viva, “spirit does linger”. — Loretta Collins Klobah, author of The Twelve-Foot Neon Woman  Peepal Tree PressISBN 9781845233631Publication Date: October 1st, 2017Home ADVANCE PRAISEfor &nbsp;Everyone Knows I Am a Haunting “In transgressive mode, Shivanee Ramlochan invokes gods, goddesses or demons to do what... http://shivaneeramlochan.com/Home Sat, 01 Jul 2017 00:20:03 +0000 Shivanee Ramlochan 189402 <img width="3674" height="5511" width_o="3674" height_o="5511" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/73af4e2b371384ccc48349fd95e39999f01573b441cc7a51d6b29adce3dcc3ca/Marlon-James_Portrait_Author_Shivanee-Ramlochan17-04-12098_bw.jpg" data-mid="247336" border="0" /> Shivanee Ramlochan is a Trinidadian poet, arts reporter and book blogger. She is the Book Reviews Editor for Caribbean Beat Magazine. Shivanee also writes about books for the NGC Bocas Lit Fest, the Anglophone Caribbean's largest literary festival, as well as Paper Based Bookshop, Trinidad and Tobago's oldest independent Caribbean specialty bookseller. She is the deputy editor of The Caribbean Review of Books.ADVANCE PRAISE for &nbsp;Everyone Knows I Am a Haunting (click) Olive Senior, author of The Pain Tree Vahni Capildeo, author of Measures of Expatriation Rajiv Mohabir, author of&nbsp; The Cowherd’s Son and The Taxidermist’s Cut Loretta Collins Klobah, author of The Twelve-Foot Neon Woman PRESSAn Extraordinary Collection, by Anu Lakhan (April 2017) READINGS &nbsp;Paper Based Bookshop (June 2017)&nbsp; PEN World Voices (May 2017)Miami Book Fair (November 2016) Bocas Lit Fest (April 2016) Bim Lit Fest (May 2016) Green Antilles (January 2016) ESSAYS &amp; INTERVIEWSThe Poetry Review (Summer 2017) Caribbean Beat Magazine (July/August 2017) Wasafiri Magazine w/ Monique Roffey (June 2017) WORKSHOPS &amp; PRESENTATIONSQueering the Hindu Goddess of the Caribbean: 30 Years in Poetry&nbsp; I’ll put my own unconventional life as a poet and queer Caribbean writer under the spotlight, reflecting on my active years in resisting heteronormative expectations, looking to Kali and Saraswati for LGBTQI inspiration, and living outwardly with inner grit. Writing Your Fire with Honesty: A Workshop Examining the contemporary Caribbean poems of Danielle Boodoo-Fortuné, Tiphanie Yanique, Dionne Brand, Rosamond S. King, Safiya Sinclair and others, I’ll chart a course for radical honesty in verse. ELSEWHERE  Twitter  Instagram Youtube  Blog  Email &nbsp; 1.868.317.8590  Illustration by Mark Jason Weston Author Photo by&nbsp; Marlon James Design by&nbsp; TOOF Shivanee Ramlochan is a Trinidadian poet, arts reporter and book blogger. She is the Book Reviews Editor for Caribbean Beat Magazine. Shivanee also writes...