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

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

sirens sounding among industrial ruins

Fast Music ranges from wide-eyed school days to a full-blown sequence of love sonnets

Commenting on Hoskote's poetry on the Poetry International website

and of a vocabulary of myth

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