A week in the life: 6 to 12 July, 2009
Read: Vahni Capildeo's new book of poems, Undraining Sea
Re-read: The Rings of Saturn, by W.G. Sebald (very slowly)
Discovered: a wonderful blog devoted to Sebald, called Vertigo
Wrote: emails; many notes to myself
Listened: to misc. ragas played by Ravi Shankar; Vivaldi's cello concertos
Scanned: some old Carnival photos from c. 1950 that I turned up while spring-cleaning last week
Downloaded: the special Erotic Art Week issue of Draconian Switch
Went: to hear Glen Beadon give a talk about the history of railways in Trinidad, at the National Library
Ate: lots of pasta; an aloo dosa; käsespätzle cooked by Brian and Natalie; utterly addictive stroopwafels brought back from Amsterdam by Georgia
Drank: lots of coffee and Jamaican ginger tea; one delicious Negroni, American style (straight up)
Desired: a cocktail shaker
Suffered: an awful day-long headache; a mild cold
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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)
1 comment:
thanks for sharing those incredible spring cleaning finds. I am so interested in seeing how mas and community functioned back then. I have been meaning to read "rings of saturn" for quite some time but i am still treading through Diaz's "Oscar Wao" what a delight it has been so far.
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