A week in the life: 8 to 14 March, 2009
Read: The first half of Marlon James's new novel, The Book of Night Women; lots of random stuff online
Wrote: emails
Listened: to Horace Andy and Bob Marley; and a bit of Ella Fitzgerald
Swam: at Doctor's Cave Beach in Montego Bay
Hiked: up an old donkey trail from Top Jack into the southern foothills of the Blue Mountains
Flew: back home from Jamaica. My brother was co-pilot of the Caribbean Airlines flight--the first time he's flown me since a jaunt to Tobago in a four-seater 'plane nine years ago
Acquired: a copy of the very first issue of Savacou; a bottle of Busha Browne's planter's sauce
Ate: masala dosa at Pushpa's, with Annie; a whole wheat ackee patty (aka a "yattie")
Drank: Twyman Estate peaberry coffee; a mojito
Gave: Georgia her Christmas present, at last
Caught up with: Roxanne and Nicolas, friends visiting from New York
Felt: great affection for Jamaica
Worried: about all the work piled up on my desk, especially CRB business
Regretted: that I haven't been blogging the last couple of months
Plotted: a trip to Suriname and French Guiana next month
Other significant events: 2009 Commonwealth Writers' Prize Caribbean/Canada regional awards announcement ceremony on Wednesday night
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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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