Trinidadian poet Shivanee Ramlochan will probably be in two consecutive in-person occasions. The primary, “Channelling Queer Depths: An Night with Poet Shivanee Ramlochan,” takes place on Tuesday, November 15, from 6:30 to eight:00pm, at Nottingham Modern (Weekday Cross, Nottingham). This occasion is free and open to the general public, however reservations are required (see under).
The second occasion is “Poetry as Ferocity Workshop: Writing Your Fact with Radical Honesty,” on Wednesday, November 16, from 5:30 to 7:30pm, on the Bonington Gallery (positioned at Nottingham Trent College, Bonington Constructing, Dryden Avenue, Nottingham, England).
Description: To correspond with Hole Earth: Artwork, Caves & The Subterranean Imaginary all are warmly invited to Channelling Queer Depths: An Night with Poet Shivanee Ramlochan. Shivanee will give readings from her ground-breaking assortment Everybody Is aware of I’m a Haunting (2017), adopted by a dialog with PhD queer literary researcher, Tom Lockwood-Moran. A selected focal point will probably be Shivanee’s upcoming work of artistic non-fiction, Unkillable (2023), centring how a author channels their queer self by harmful, unorthodox, and taboo topics. This occasion will discover how and why poetry chisels beneath the world’s floor to reveal queer depths, significantly knowledgeable by Shivanee’s expertise of Trinidadian cultures and subcultures.
Description: What truths are your poems telling? If not for the truth of your poems, what truths would by no means be spoken in any respect? In Poetry as Ferocity Workshop: Writing Your Fact with Radical Honesty, we’ll chart a course for radical honesty in verse, in search of to develop stronger roots in your poems to anchor themselves. Specializing in work by feminine Caribbean poets Danielle Boodoo-Fortuné and Safiya Sinclair, we draw on their highly effective subversion in writing. Utilizing progressive workout routines, we unlock essentially the most potent methods to inform the reality our poems require.
Poets have at all times been political agitators, defenders of the best to wield uncomfortable truths. What truths do you carry to the desk, prepared and roaring to be advised? [NOTE: This workshop is open to people aged 18 and over. This workshop involves discussion of potentially triggering content and strong language.]
Shivanee Ramlochan is an Indo-Trinidadian poet, critic, and essayist, whose first poetry assortment, Everybody Is aware of I Am a Haunting (2017), was shortlisted for the 2018 Ahead Prize. Ramlochan’s subsequent work, the artistic non-fiction Unkillable, is forthcoming from Noemi Press in Autumn 2023. Shivanee is the Ebook Evaluations Editor for Caribbean Beat Journal and works intently with Bocas Lit Fest, the Caribbean’s largest literary pageant.
Tom Lockwood-Moran is a PhD queer literary researcher, funded by Midlands4Cities (AHRC), writing his thesis in English Literature, entitled: ‘Queer Resistance(s): Modern Caribbean Communality’. Tom’s undertaking is supervised by specialists from each Nottingham Trent College and The College of Leicester.
For extra data on Nottingham modern occasion, see https://www.nottinghamcontemporary.org/whats-on/poetry-shivanee-ramlochan/
To make reservations, go to https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/channelling-queer-depths-an-evening-with-poet-shivanee-ramlochan-tickets-443973275017?aff=ebdsoporgprofile
For extra details about the Bonington Gallery occasion, go to https://www.boningtongallery.co.uk/occasion/formations-poetry-workshop-writing-your-truth-with-radical-honesty/
[Photo above by Elechi Todd.]