On being a free man
I’ve not been humiliated by employment, in my own eyes.
— V.S. Naipaul, interviewed on BBC TV in 1994.
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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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- “Play it, here I am!”
- When the devil callsBe ever engaged, so that whene...
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- “How fortunate the specialist!”A traveller who has...
- The world’s strange bounty, no. 3From the Septembe...
- Poetry and innocenceInnocent fun. I’d like to stre...
- “More demanding than most of what passes for schol...
- On being a free manI’ve not been humiliated by emp...
- On asceticismI have never understood asceticism. I...
- The world’s strange bounty, no. 2Cassava plant wit...
- ’Ous kai dire ça vraiSi mwen di ’ous ça fait mwen ...
- Mental eventsSort of as a result of the interdepen...
- “With you giving them the real stuff”“I must let y...
- “Each traveller hopes”And each traveller hopes: “L...
- Raspberry Bourrée<a href="http://goodev...
- The world’s strange bounty, no. 1Glass models of m...
- “The task of a lifetime”I will do anything to avoi...
- “But not for me”The previous post has put me in mi...
- “But not for us”— From Marmaduke, by Franz Kafka, ...
- “A patriot of your apartment”When you are a writer...
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