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Andre Bagoo (he/him) @abagoo.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It was a pleasure to be a juror of the documentary film category at the recently concluded Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival alongside Denae Peters and Shanida Scotland. Congratulations to all of the filmmakers on a memorable year of work.

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Andre Bagoo (he/him) @abagoo.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Today marks 100 days til Christmas and it seems like an opportune moment to say I have a new poem in CHRISTMAS PARTY, a festive mini-anthology edited by Di Slaney and Katharine Towers of Candlestick Press. This Christmas, instead of a card, why not give a pamphlet of poems? tinyurl.com/yfnpzfuj

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Moko Magazine @mokomagazine.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Muddy, endless, every building’s beaten wood / laid slatternly, every mossy bridge post broken, / blistered walkways through fierce grass sentries... - from ‘Canal Water’, one of two incredible poems by Desirée Seebaran in Moko Issue 26: Visual Poetries mokomagazine.org/2026/04/12/t...

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Andre Bagoo (he/him) @abagoo.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

On Saturday, I presented my zine project, BOOK OF SAND, devised by me for UN|FOLD 2026, held at Alice Yard’s Granderson Lab.

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Brick, A Literary Journal @brickliterary.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Andre Bagoo looks back on earthly attachments in Brick 108. "The repetition of the word shade, the chain of hissing sibilants, the litany of nouns, adverbs, and definitive articles—all of it felt like some hypnotic ritual I was being indoctrinated into." lithub.com/my-hundred-y...

On a light green background, a quote from Bagoo.

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Moko Magazine @mokomagazine.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

‘Water, sugared tomb, / Inverted pyramid…’ –from ‘Sacred, still’ by AMARA Click to read this stunning new poem from MOKO Issue 26: Visual Poetries Or see it here: mokomagazine.org/2026/04/12/s... #poem #poetry #AMARA

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Peepal Tree Press @peepaltreepress.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

☀️ Poetry Summer Sale! ☀️ To celebrate the publication of our new collections Before the Rain and The Impossibility of Nothingness, we’re running a poetry summer sale - until Monday 6th July, enjoy 40% off all poetry titles on our website! www.peepaltreepress.com

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Andre Bagoo (he/him) @abagoo.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

I finally checked out Bruce Cayonne’s The Sign Man Exhibition at Big Black Box today. Pictured here alongside fete signs in the show is PITCH LAKE, my third collection of poems, published in 2017 featuring a cover designed by Bruce & now available 40% off from @peepaltreepress.bsky.social

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Moko Magazine @mokomagazine.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Congratulations to MOKO Issue 25 cover artist Kvita Mongroo on the opening of her latest show The Visionary’s Last Gift on Saturday at Softbox Gallery!🎉 📖Read an interview with Kvita about her art here: mokomagazine.org/2025/11/11/i... 🖼️Detail from ‘Dream House I’, 12” x 10”, mixed media collage

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The Emma Press @theemmapress.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Andre Bagoo reviews MATE ARIAS by Lewis Buxton in Magma 94 💛 *A Birmingham Editorial Readers Group selection - available in our webshop & all good bookshops: buff.ly/Jksapqe

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Kostya Tsolakis @kostyatsolakis.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Getting our new harana poetry website ready for our autumn relaunch 😉 Follow us at @haranapoetry.bsky.social for updates on the website and submissions! 🌸🌸🌸 #haranapoetry13 #poetry #esl #eslpoetry

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Candlestick Press @candlestickpress.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Happy Christmas! We have our competition winners: www.candlestickpress.co.uk/competitions/

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Moko Magazine @mokomagazine.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

…But no dictionary / consideration for their mothers, except the craft / and harmony of immigrants. — from ‘X-Mothers’ by Justin Haynes in Moko 26 mokomagazine.org/2026/04/12/m... Pictured: Justin in Trinidad for the recent Bocas Lit Fest, where he was awarded the OCM Bocas Prize for Fiction

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Andre Bagoo (he/him) @abagoo.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

I review a cluster of new poetry pamphlets by Rebecca Bilkau, Lewis Buxton and Lauren O’Donovan in MAGMA 94. Thank you reviews editor Aoife Lyall. The issue, edited by Elontra Hall, Willie Lee Kinard III, and Lola Oh, is spectacular. ✨ #poetry #poetrybooks #bookreviews

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Moko Magazine @mokomagazine.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

‘Proud nobody from nowhere, / your heart bleeds its love of islands...’ --from ‘Where You From’, a powerful new poem by Mac Donald Dixon featured in Moko 26 Read it here: mokomagazine.org/2026/04/12/w...

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Moko Magazine @mokomagazine.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

‘Even if nothing happens, / even if the captain of / the Gravely goes home / / with two rum / in he head…’ – from the opening of Mervyn Taylor’s astonishing poem ‘Even If No War’ in Moko 26. Read it here mokomagazine.org/2026/04/12/e...

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Moko Magazine @mokomagazine.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

'The broken louvres draw me in / like incantation, until I find myself / sitting in a dark room, wings folded…’ -- from ‘The Aftermath of Flight’, one of three spectacular new poems by Danielle Boodoo-Fortuné featured in Moko 26 Read them here: mokomagazine.org/2026/04/12/t...

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Moko Magazine @mokomagazine.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

'Visual poetry has been, and remains, a tool to explore post-coloniality...' - from Moko 26’s Editorial: Signs & Tokens mokomagazine.org/2026/04/12/e... 📸 Charlie Godet Thomas, 'Unfolding Landscape (Juvenile Begging)', 2025. Image courtesy the artist and Colector Gallery, Mexico/US.

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Moko Magazine @mokomagazine.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Announcing Moko 26: VISUAL POETRIES with Charlie Godet Thomas, Rex Dixon, Tracy Assing, Stewart Brown, Kevin Morris, Adeline Gregoire & much more! mokomagazine.org Cover: Charlie Godet Thomas, ‘Unfolding Landscape (Pesticides),’ 2025. Image courtesy the artist/ Colector Gallery, Mexico/US.

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Bocas Lit Fest @bocaslitfest.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

In ‘The Quiet Ear: An Investigation of Missing Sound’, acclaimed poet Raymond Antrobus tells the story of growing up “at the intersection of race and disability” & how deafness — and its community — have shaped his life & sensibility. One on One with @abagoo.bsky.social at #bocas2026 #alltogethernow

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Bocas Lit Fest @bocaslitfest.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

📣 Once again, we have a packed schedule of events for our annual festival with all the elements our audience expects: readings & discussions, workshops and performances, music, drama, Ole Mas, open mics, activities for teens & children, & more! ✨️https://bocaslitfest.com/programme

A colourful checkboard of events and activities coming up at the annual Bocas Lit Fest. Full programme at https://bocaslitfest.com/programme

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Andre Bagoo (he/him) @abagoo.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

At this University of the West Indies event this week, I shall present new thoughts on the political implications of form within Caribbean literary praxis and also read from my fiction debut, THE DREAMING, which was published by Peepal Tree Press in 2022.

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Moko Magazine @mokomagazine.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Behold: a new episode of Sky Words, the podcast of Moko Magazine. In this coruscating third episode, poet Althea Romeo-Mark — born in Antigua and Barbuda and now based in Switzerland — shares one of her two poems featured in Issue 25: Made in the Caribbean. 🎧 Listen now: mokomagazine.org/podcast/

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Andre Bagoo (he/him) @abagoo.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Is a work of art ever finished? I’ve a new poem-in-progress in Tentacular Issue 12 “Un/finished”. Grateful to editor Jonathan Catherall. www.tentacularmag.com/issue-12-a/a... @tentacularmag.bsky.social @jonathancatherall.bsky.social

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Moko Magazine @mokomagazine.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Moko accepts submissions all year round. Send us poems, short stories, flash fictions, interviews, essays, book reviews, art, and photography tied to the Caribbean diaspora. See our Submittable page for general genre guidelines: mokomagazine.submittable.com/submit #books #magazinesubmissions

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Moko Magazine @mokomagazine.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

“I had nothing but the present and stories with no beginnings,” says Cécé, the eponymous protagonist of Emmelie Prophète’s economical yet potent novel. READ the rest of Issue 25's reading roundup here mokomagazine.org/2025/11/11/r... @archipelagobooks.bsky.social

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Andre Bagoo (he/him) @abagoo.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Delighted to hear the poet Daljit Nagra read my poem ‘Untouched’ on BBC Radio 4’s Poetry Extra programme today. Thanks again to Mona Arshi and Karen McCarthy Wolf for selecting this poem for their brilliant anthology NATURE MATTERS, which is Daljit’s Poetry Extra Book of the Month. ✨🍃

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The Poetry Society @poetrysociety.org.uk · 04/12/2025

🕰️ With the year coming to an end, we asked a selection of Poetry Review contributors to give us their favourite poetry books and pamphlets of 2025.

Andre Bagoo recommends Love is a Dangerous Word, edited by John Keene and Robert F. Reid-Pharr; poetry by Essex Hemphill and says: When I first saw Isaac Julien's 1989 film Looking for Langston, I fell in love with two poets: Langston Hughes, the film's focus, and Essex Hemphill, the Chicago-born American poet whose writing is memorably placed in dialogue with Hughes. Love is a Dangerous Word is a rich selection from Hemphill's work, whose terse lines betray their charge.

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Andre Bagoo (he/him) @abagoo.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

My contributor’s copy of Callaloo, Volume 43, No. 2 finally arrived here in Port of Spain. The issue features my new short fiction piece ‘The Windrush Generation’. My thanks once more to the editors. ✨ #booksky #fiction #shortstory @callaloojournal.bsky.social

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Moko Magazine @mokomagazine.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Read Issue 25’s editorial at mokomagazine.org/2025/11/11/e... #Moko #MokoMagazine #MokoIssue25 #ReadCaribbean #CaribbeanArtsAndLetters

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Moko Magazine @mokomagazine.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Announcing Moko 25: MADE IN THE CARIBBEAN With Marckenson Jean-Baptiste, Ariel Francisco, Althea Romeo-Mark, Deneka Thomas, Niala Maharaj, Caroline Mackenzie, Breanne Mc Ivor, Diana McCaulay, Kvita Mongroo, Nicholas Huggins, June Aming, Ruth Osman, Keeron Isaac, and more! mokomagazine.org

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Bocas Lit Fest @bocaslitfest.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

8/8 Thank you to everyone who joined us at The Writers Centre. We look forward to celebrating more @peepaltreepress.bsky.social titles for years to come. More: facebook.com/media/set/?v... #bocas2025 #PeepalTreeRubyJubilee

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Bocas Lit Fest @bocaslitfest.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

1/8 In celebration of the 40th anniversary of @peepaltreepress.bsky.social, a leading publisher of Caribbean literature, @bocaslitfest.bsky.social marked the literary milestone with a special event featuring 5 Peepal Tree authors. Each read from a Peepal Tree title especially meaningful to them.../2

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Bocas Lit Fest @bocaslitfest.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

4/8 “Finding a home, a space where you can assume your fullest voice without any need to translate who you are; there's this reverence and respect and genuine enthusiasm for the region. Jeremy himself takes the region very seriously.” @abagoo.bsky.social …/5

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Andre Bagoo (he/him) @abagoo.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

I’ll be joining @bocaslitfest.bsky.social ‘s 40th anniversary celebration of @peepaltreepress.bsky.social this week, reading from a Peepal Tree title that is especially meaningful to me. Which book shall I read from? There’s only one way to find out. Come on down. #Bocas2025 #PeepalTreePress

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Bocas Lit Fest @bocaslitfest.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

📣The pioneering publishing house @peepaltreepress.bsky.social turns 40 in 2025! Join us on Sat 8th Nov to celebrate with a special readings from five Peepal Tree authors: James Christopher Aboud, Andre Bagoo, Danielle Boodoo-Fortuné, J. Vijay Maharaj, and Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw. #bocas2025 .../2

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Bocas Lit Fest @bocaslitfest.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

2/2 We're celebrating #PeepalTreesRubyJubilee with James Christopher Aboud, @abagoo.bsky.social, @dboodoofortune.bsky.social, #JVijayMaharaj, and #Elizabeth Walcott-Hackshaw 🗓 Sat 08 Nov 🕥5.30 pm 📍The Writers Centre, 14 Alcazar Street, St. Clair #bocas2025 #PeepalTreePress

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Hopkins Press @hopkinspress.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

NEW ISSUE OUT NOW Callaloo Volume 43, Number 2, Spring 2025 tinyurl.com/5f5r96es CONTRIBUTORS Keenan Norris Mark Winston Griffith Brian Muraya Dashiell Moore Dereka Thomas Candace Howze Hiwot Adilow O'Neil Arnold Megan Feifer E. Gale Greenlee Alexis Pauline Gumbs and more!

NEW ISSUE OUT NOW
Callaloo
Volume 43, Number 2, Spring 2025

CONTRIBUTORS

Keenan Norris
Mark Winston Griffith
Brian Muraya
Dashiell Moore
Dereka Thomas
Candace Howze
Hiwot Adilow
O'Neil Arnold
Megan Feifer
E. Gale Greenlee
M. Shadee Malaklou
Alexis Pauline Gumbs
Joy James
Libby Falk Jones
Kiana T. Murphy
Natassja B. Gunasena
Denise Miller
Randy Winston
Danny Bellinger
E. Hughes
Etim Singkem
Alex Tretbar
Kassy Lee
Matthieu Chapman
Topher Allen
Andre Bagoo
Mia S. Willis
Joy Notoma
Clemonce Heard
Tatiana Richards Hanebutte
Tryphena Yeboah
Renoir Gaither
April Gibson
Shanna L. Smith
Tony Medina
Jodi-Ann Burey
Richard Hamilton

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Andre Bagoo (he/him) @abagoo.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

I have a short story, ‘The Windrush Generation’, in the latest issue of Callaloo. Special thank you to Luke Hankins & Charles Holm and executive editor Kyla Kupferstein Torres. Find out more at @callaloojournal.bsky.social 🙏🏾 #shortstories #fiction #writingconmunity

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Andre Bagoo (he/him) @abagoo.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

And here I am peeping out from the pages of the Autumn 2025 issue of Wasafiri. Thank you Jarula M I Wegner and editor Sanya Goyal. 🙏🏾 #interview #writingcommunity #bookstagram @wasafirimag.bsky.social

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Wasafiri Magazine @wasafirimag.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

📣 Orders are now open for our latest issue, Wasafiri 123! Find interviews with Andre Bagoo, Cato Pedder, and Christina Sharpe, three translated Tamil poets, a poem by Devika Rege, and more fiction, reviews, articles, and poems. www.wasafiri.org/issues/wasaf...

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Inside Wasafiri 123, you'll find interviews with Andre Bagoo and Christina Sharpe, a lead feature poem by Devika Rege, our 2024 Essay Prize winning articles…

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Wasafiri Magazine @wasafirimag.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

Our Autumn issue – Wasafiri 123 – is available to preorder now! Includes interviews with @abagoo.bsky.social and Christina Sharpe, our 2024 Essay Prize winners, and a Tibetan writers and artists showcase, alongside our usual mix of fiction, poetry, reviews, and more. buff.ly/Edj18wU

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Andre Bagoo (he/him) @abagoo.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

I finally got my hands on my contributor’s copy of NATURE MATTERS, edited by Mona Arshi and Karen McCarthy Woolf. My poem takes us to a small Ti Marie or touch-me-not plant growing at the centre of the Queen’s Park Savannah, just before it shuts to the touch.

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Andre Bagoo (he/him) @abagoo.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

I have three new poems (‘Epithalamium’ ‘Anti-Epithalamium’ and ‘Prothalamion’) published over at COMP: an interdisciplinary journal. Thank you to the brilliant editor, Jaydn DeWald. Just in time for Pride. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️✨ www.compajournal.com/issue-5-poet... #poetry #writingcommunity #pride #booksky

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Andre Bagoo (he/him) @abagoo.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

My work is featured in DIAGRAM 25.2. Thank you editor Ander Monson. #poetry #bestiaries #writingcommunity

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Faber Books @faberbooks.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

'This anthology is a revelation.' Guardian Best Recent Poetry 'A groundbreaking testament to our natural world.' Bernardine Evaristo 'Vigorous and timely.' Sathnam Sanghera Nature Matters: Vital Poems from the Global Majority publishes today 🌱 faber.co.uk/product/9780571370283-nature-matters/

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Andre Bagoo (he/him) @abagoo.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Pleased to have work in this anthology edited by Karen McCarthy Woolf and Mona Arshi and out now from @faberbooks.bsky.social 🍃✨

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The Society of Authors @societyofauthors.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

"Incantatory, spell-binding and resonant, they linger on the mind. We are delighted to share them." Judge Andre Bagoo (@pleasureblog) Sponsored by @ALCS and @Hawthornden Foundation, the ALCS Tom-Gallon Trust Award is awarded for a short story of up to 5,000 words 🧵

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The Society of Authors @societyofauthors.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

‘Incantatory, spell-binding and resonant’ –announcing the 2025 Society of Authors’ Awards shortlists The seven shortlists celebrate prose, poetry & children’s literature, ahead of the ceremony on 18 June Tom Newland’s Only Here, Only Now receives two nominations – the only title to do so

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Jo Lloyd but jolly 🌍🐎 @jolloyds.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

And how lovely to see the International Booker Prize go to a book of short stories! Congratulations to Banu Mushtaq, Deepa Bhasthi, and @andotherstories.bsky.social

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