Midnight Bestiaries by Andre Bagoo memory So Many Rooms

So Many Rooms

the familiar and the strange in poems which cast a sharp eye over their subject matter and return with wry

The book seeks catharsis

Greek islands and the godforsaken rural idyll where he currently abides

cultural habits

Midnight Bestiaries by Andre Bagoo memory So Many RoomsWe 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