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.

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

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...

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

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...

‘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

☀️ 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

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

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

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

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

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

…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

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

‘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...

‘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...

'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...

'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.

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.

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

📣 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

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.

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/

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

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

“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

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. ✨🍃

🕰️ 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.

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

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