El Alto | Queer: Gender Sexuality and the Arts in the Americas

Trinidad and Tobago / Trinidad y Tobago 78
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ANDRE BAGOO
Exploring the margins of language
Explorando las fronteras del lenguaje
Andre Bagoo is a Trinidadian poet and writer,
author of four books of poetry, Trick Vessels
(2012), BURN (2015), Pitch Lake (2017) and The
City of Dreadful Night (2018). His poems have
appeared in journals such as Boston Review,
Cincinnati Review, St Petersburg Review, Poetry,
and The Poetry Review. He was awarded
The Charlotte and Isidor Paiewonsky Prize by
The Caribbean Writer in 2017.
He studied law at King’s College London, before
working as a journalist for ten years in Trinidad.
His reportage has focused on LGBTQI+ art and
activism, including coverage for the British
Council of the ground-breaking Caribbean Queer
Visualities show held in Belfast in 2016. In poetry
that often explores the margins of language,
his work frequently experiments with form and
performance, most recently through inter-media
collaborations with the poet Vahni Capildeo,
the artist Wendy Nanan, and the Contact Improv
Trinidad dance collective.
His first collection of essays, The Undiscovered
Country, is forthcoming from Peepal Tree Press.
Andre Bagoo es un poeta y escritor trinitense,
autor de cuatro libros de poesía: Trick Vessels
(2012); BURN (2015); Pitch Lake (2017) y The City
of Dreadful Night (2018). Sus poemas han
aparecido en revistas como el Boston Review,
Cincinnati Review, St Petersburg Review, Poetry
& The Poetry Review. Asimismo, fue galardonado
con el premio The Charlotte e Isidor Paiewonsky
por The Caribbean Writer en 2017.
Estudió derecho en King’s College Londres, antes
de trabajar como periodista durante diez años
en Trinidad. Sus reportajes han abordado temas
en las artes y el activismo LGBTQI+, incluyendo
una cobertura para el British Council de la
exhibición Caribbean Queer Visualities, que tuvo
lugar durante el festival de Outburst de 2016 en
Belfast. En su poesía, en la que a menudo explora
las fronteras del lenguaje, incluye experimentos
formales y performances - como lo muestran
sus recientes colaboraciones transmedia con el
poeta Vahni Capildeo, la artista Wendy Nanan y
el colectivo de danza Contact Improv Trinidad.
Su primera colección de ensayos será publicada
pronto por la editorial británica Peepal Tree Press
bajo el título Un País Sin Descrubir.
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