"I can't even enjoy a blade of grass unless I know there's a subway handy, or a record store or some other sign that people do not totally regret life."
— a line from Frank O'Hara's poem "Meditations in an Emergency", which I've just come across in an essay on James Schuyler in the Autumn 2002 Poetry Review.
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Who is Nicholas Laughlin?
I am a writer (read some of my reviews, essays, etc. at Choosing My Confessions), editor of The Caribbean Review of Books and Caribbean Beat, and programme director of the Bocas Lit Fest. Visit my home page for more details. I’m a bit more active on Twitter: @nplaughlin.
I’m a co-director of Alice Yard, an experimental creative space and network in Port of Spain.
I co-edit Town, a modest literary magazine published in two formats: broadsides posted in public locations around Port of Spain, and online.
See photos at my Flickr page.
See my collaboration with artist Christopher Cozier, Tropical Night.
Amours de voyage; or, notes from an occasional traveller.
Some poems.
Email me at:
nicholaslaughlin[at]gmail[dot]com
My second book of poems, Enemy Luck, was published in 2019 by Peepal Tree Press.
My first book of poems, The Strange Years of My Life, was published in 2015 by Peepal Tree Press.
I’m a co-director of Alice Yard, an experimental creative space and network in Port of Spain.
I co-edit Town, a modest literary magazine published in two formats: broadsides posted in public locations around Port of Spain, and online.
See photos at my Flickr page.
See my collaboration with artist Christopher Cozier, Tropical Night.
Amours de voyage; or, notes from an occasional traveller.
Some poems.
Email me at:
nicholaslaughlin[at]gmail[dot]com
Blogs I read oftenish
Caribbean magazines, journals, newspapers
Literary magazines, websites, and blogs around the world
Other people, places, things that interest me (in no particular order)
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- Yesterday, just as Julian Kenny was criticising th...
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- "As a free citizen I want to be able to read and e...
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- Unfound So I have moved you, So has my heart spok...
- Anand Ramlogan, writing in the Trinidad Guardian t...
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- Jamaica's Christmas pantomime, a cultural institut...
- A thousand Jamaican schoolchildren demonstrated ag...
- A "secret" poem written by Philip Larkin for his l...
- A brief housekeeping note: since I started this bl...
- Kevin Baldeosingh suggests in his Express column t...
- Matt Prescott, zoologist at Oxford University, has...
- Robert Clarke reports in the Trinidad Guardian tod...
- Damien responds, this time in his blog, to my argu...
- My friend Damien responds via email to yesterday's...
- Wayne Brown's column in today's Jamaica Observer d...
- The Express today runs a report by Mark Meredith o...
- Derek Walcott admirers, take note: our fortunate t...
- Nicholas Laughlin's blog banned by the Chinese gov...
- The golden arches no longer gleam against the Trin...
- The New Yorker is my favourite magazine, but I don...
- "I know the war is inevitable ... and I know sadda...
- "I wanted to be able to do for Barbados what Chamo...
- A few weeks ago, when I started this blog, the deb...
- Tim Hector, Antiguan writer, political activist, f...
- "I can't even enjoy a blade of grass unless I know...
- "As much as I find the resolution unfair, provocat...
- The T'dad Guardian reports today that BWIA & its a...
- The Antigua Sun reports today that Antiguan commis...
- The Trinidad Guardian, whose broadsheet format use...
- A few questions I ask myself almost every day: "W...
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- The Antigua Sun & the Jamaica Observer report that...
- "I’m not surprised that this is the moment when Ra...
- Metropolis magazine in its November issue has brou...
- "Novels teach us how to be alone by absorbing us i...
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- I'm two days late with the news: Austin Clarke did...
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