Thinking aloud
Poetry ought to concern itself with the truth.
There are other things to do with the truth than tell it.
A lie does concern itself with the truth.
Twittering
Who is Nicholas Laughlin?
I am a writer (read some of my reviews, essays, etc. at Choosing My Confessions) and editor of The Caribbean Review of Books. Visit my home page for more details. My major work-in-progress is a book about Guyana, tentatively titled “Imaginary Roads”.
I also blog at Antilles: the CRB blog.
I’m a co-director of Alice Yard, an experimental creative space and network in Port of Spain.
I’m also on the organising team for the Bocas Lit Fest, a literary festival based in Trinidad and Tobago, and for the annual OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature.
I co-edit Town, a modest literary magazine published in two formats: broadsides posted in public locations around Port of Spain, and online.
Paramaribo SPAN is a conversation about contemporary art and visual culture in Suriname. The project, which ran from July 2009 to April 2010, included an exhibition, a book, and a blog, which I edited.
See photos at my Flickr page.
See my collaboration with artist Christopher Cozier, Tropical Night.
The (half serious) Nicholas Laughlin Book Awards: 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002.
Amours de voyage; or, notes from an occasional traveller.
Some poems.
Email me at:
nicholaslaughlin[at]gmail[dot]com
I also blog at Antilles: the CRB blog.
I’m a co-director of Alice Yard, an experimental creative space and network in Port of Spain.
I’m also on the organising team for the Bocas Lit Fest, a literary festival based in Trinidad and Tobago, and for the annual OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature.
I co-edit Town, a modest literary magazine published in two formats: broadsides posted in public locations around Port of Spain, and online.
Paramaribo SPAN is a conversation about contemporary art and visual culture in Suriname. The project, which ran from July 2009 to April 2010, included an exhibition, a book, and a blog, which I edited.
See photos at my Flickr page.
See my collaboration with artist Christopher Cozier, Tropical Night.
The (half serious) Nicholas Laughlin Book Awards: 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002.
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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3 comments:
Poetry has hidden truths. Who is meant to understand? The writer? Or the reader?
Berryman: "These songs are not meant to be understood, you understand. / They are only meant to terrify & comfort."
Who doh understan' does feel.
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