Midnight Bestiaries by Andre Bagoo Peter Sirr and the poet’s own little

and the poet’s own little river in his native Picardy

Commenting on Hoskote's poetry on the Poetry International website

In Sentenced to Life

for the special kind of emotional not-quite-therapy that the best poetry provides

Albert Pierrepoint

Midnight Bestiaries by Andre Bagoo Peter Sirr and the poet’s own littleWe have always been imaginary, declares this mesmerising collection from Trinidadian writer Andre Bagoo. In prose poems that make use of the liminal qualities of the form and anticipate the books second half readers travel across ideas of the bestiary as mythic repository and realist document of social critique. Trinidad and Tobago looms large, but so too writing, loving, and reckoning with subjugations through transformations. The collections heart