Andre Bagoo (he/him)
@abagoo.bsky.social
“Andre Bagoo is a fearless, brilliant mind.” – Ilya Kaminsky
I’ll be joining @bocaslitfest.bsky.social ‘s 40th anniversary celebration of @peepaltreepress.bsky.social this week, reading from a Peepal Tree title that is especially meaningful to me. Which book shall I read from? There’s only one way to find out. Come on down.
#Bocas2025 #PeepalTreePress
#Bocas2025 #PeepalTreePress
November 4, 2025 at 1:16 PM
I’ll be joining @bocaslitfest.bsky.social ‘s 40th anniversary celebration of @peepaltreepress.bsky.social this week, reading from a Peepal Tree title that is especially meaningful to me. Which book shall I read from? There’s only one way to find out. Come on down.
#Bocas2025 #PeepalTreePress
#Bocas2025 #PeepalTreePress
I have a short story, ‘The Windrush Generation’, in the latest issue of Callaloo. Special thank you to Luke Hankins & Charles Holm and executive editor Kyla Kupferstein Torres. Find out more at @callaloojournal.bsky.social 🙏🏾
#shortstories #fiction #writingconmunity
#shortstories #fiction #writingconmunity
September 29, 2025 at 12:48 PM
I have a short story, ‘The Windrush Generation’, in the latest issue of Callaloo. Special thank you to Luke Hankins & Charles Holm and executive editor Kyla Kupferstein Torres. Find out more at @callaloojournal.bsky.social 🙏🏾
#shortstories #fiction #writingconmunity
#shortstories #fiction #writingconmunity
And here I am peeping out from the pages of the Autumn 2025 issue of Wasafiri. Thank you Jarula M I Wegner and editor Sanya Goyal. 🙏🏾
#interview #writingcommunity #bookstagram
@wasafirimag.bsky.social
#interview #writingcommunity #bookstagram
@wasafirimag.bsky.social
September 17, 2025 at 12:35 PM
And here I am peeping out from the pages of the Autumn 2025 issue of Wasafiri. Thank you Jarula M I Wegner and editor Sanya Goyal. 🙏🏾
#interview #writingcommunity #bookstagram
@wasafirimag.bsky.social
#interview #writingcommunity #bookstagram
@wasafirimag.bsky.social
I finally got my hands on my contributor’s copy of NATURE MATTERS, edited by Mona Arshi and Karen McCarthy Woolf.
My poem takes us to a small Ti Marie or touch-me-not plant growing at the centre of the Queen’s Park Savannah, just before it shuts to the touch.
My poem takes us to a small Ti Marie or touch-me-not plant growing at the centre of the Queen’s Park Savannah, just before it shuts to the touch.
July 16, 2025 at 12:06 PM
I finally got my hands on my contributor’s copy of NATURE MATTERS, edited by Mona Arshi and Karen McCarthy Woolf.
My poem takes us to a small Ti Marie or touch-me-not plant growing at the centre of the Queen’s Park Savannah, just before it shuts to the touch.
My poem takes us to a small Ti Marie or touch-me-not plant growing at the centre of the Queen’s Park Savannah, just before it shuts to the touch.
I have three new poems (‘Epithalamium’ ‘Anti-Epithalamium’ and ‘Prothalamion’) published over at COMP: an interdisciplinary journal. Thank you to the brilliant editor, Jaydn DeWald. Just in time for Pride. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️✨
www.compajournal.com/issue-5-poet...
#poetry #writingcommunity #pride #booksky
www.compajournal.com/issue-5-poet...
#poetry #writingcommunity #pride #booksky
July 9, 2025 at 1:00 PM
I have three new poems (‘Epithalamium’ ‘Anti-Epithalamium’ and ‘Prothalamion’) published over at COMP: an interdisciplinary journal. Thank you to the brilliant editor, Jaydn DeWald. Just in time for Pride. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️✨
www.compajournal.com/issue-5-poet...
#poetry #writingcommunity #pride #booksky
www.compajournal.com/issue-5-poet...
#poetry #writingcommunity #pride #booksky
My work is featured in DIAGRAM 25.2. Thank you editor Ander Monson.
#poetry #bestiaries #writingcommunity
#poetry #bestiaries #writingcommunity
July 2, 2025 at 12:35 PM
My work is featured in DIAGRAM 25.2. Thank you editor Ander Monson.
#poetry #bestiaries #writingcommunity
#poetry #bestiaries #writingcommunity
Pleased to have work in this anthology edited by Karen McCarthy Woolf and Mona Arshi and out now from @faberbooks.bsky.social 🍃✨
May 23, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Pleased to have work in this anthology edited by Karen McCarthy Woolf and Mona Arshi and out now from @faberbooks.bsky.social 🍃✨
RIP Alice Notley (1945-2025). Here is a page from The Descent of Alette.
May 20, 2025 at 10:34 PM
RIP Alice Notley (1945-2025). Here is a page from The Descent of Alette.
A pleasure being on the judging panel for this prize ✨ @societyofauthors.bsky.social
May 20, 2025 at 10:06 PM
A pleasure being on the judging panel for this prize ✨ @societyofauthors.bsky.social
To vote is your right. 🗳️
April 28, 2025 at 3:27 PM
To vote is your right. 🗳️
And just like that, April has come to an end. But I’m looking forward to reading poetry from MIDNIGHT BESTIARIES at the Bocas Lit Fest @bocaslitfest.bsky.social later this week. It’s gonna be wild. 🐕 🐈⬛ 🍃✨
www.bocaslitfest.com/events/take-...
www.bocaslitfest.com/events/take-...
April 27, 2025 at 11:10 AM
And just like that, April has come to an end. But I’m looking forward to reading poetry from MIDNIGHT BESTIARIES at the Bocas Lit Fest @bocaslitfest.bsky.social later this week. It’s gonna be wild. 🐕 🐈⬛ 🍃✨
www.bocaslitfest.com/events/take-...
www.bocaslitfest.com/events/take-...
Thank you for the birthday love ❤️
April 23, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Thank you for the birthday love ❤️
Birthday-month bashment continues. 🍰 🍃
April’s been splendid, but I’m also looking forward to reading from MIDNIGHT BESTIARIES at the Bocas Lit Fest at an event with the poet Linzey Corridon on May 3 at the National Library. For full festival details check out @bocaslitfest.bsky.social
April’s been splendid, but I’m also looking forward to reading from MIDNIGHT BESTIARIES at the Bocas Lit Fest at an event with the poet Linzey Corridon on May 3 at the National Library. For full festival details check out @bocaslitfest.bsky.social
April 20, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Birthday-month bashment continues. 🍰 🍃
April’s been splendid, but I’m also looking forward to reading from MIDNIGHT BESTIARIES at the Bocas Lit Fest at an event with the poet Linzey Corridon on May 3 at the National Library. For full festival details check out @bocaslitfest.bsky.social
April’s been splendid, but I’m also looking forward to reading from MIDNIGHT BESTIARIES at the Bocas Lit Fest at an event with the poet Linzey Corridon on May 3 at the National Library. For full festival details check out @bocaslitfest.bsky.social
I review Anu Lakhan’s The Proper Care of Knives in today’s Newsday. You can read my review in full here: newsday.co.tt/2025/04/13/a...
April 13, 2025 at 12:57 PM
I review Anu Lakhan’s The Proper Care of Knives in today’s Newsday. You can read my review in full here: newsday.co.tt/2025/04/13/a...
And just like that, it’s my birthday month. And I need to tell you just how much I love you. ❤️
April 2, 2025 at 10:52 PM
And just like that, it’s my birthday month. And I need to tell you just how much I love you. ❤️
I WILL NOT GO finally arrived, with a new poem by me inside called ‘Big Daddy’ 🤭
Thank you editor Rajiv Mohabir; Kaya Press🙏🏾🙏🏾
#poetry #bookstagram #poem
#poem #poetry #bookstagram
Thank you editor Rajiv Mohabir; Kaya Press🙏🏾🙏🏾
#poetry #bookstagram #poem
#poem #poetry #bookstagram
January 19, 2025 at 12:31 PM
I WILL NOT GO finally arrived, with a new poem by me inside called ‘Big Daddy’ 🤭
Thank you editor Rajiv Mohabir; Kaya Press🙏🏾🙏🏾
#poetry #bookstagram #poem
#poem #poetry #bookstagram
Thank you editor Rajiv Mohabir; Kaya Press🙏🏾🙏🏾
#poetry #bookstagram #poem
#poem #poetry #bookstagram
December 27, 2024 at 11:03 AM
December 25, 2024 at 9:44 PM
Weekend of fruitcake baking! 🎄
December 15, 2024 at 1:11 PM
Weekend of fruitcake baking! 🎄
‘I didn’t want to write another Christmas poem because all my / Christmas poems are sad, but here I go again…’
Oh the joy of December. You can find some solace, perhaps, in yet another heart-warming outing from me in MIDNIGHT BESTIARIES.
#booksky #poetry #Christmas
December 2, 2024 at 2:45 PM
‘I didn’t want to write another Christmas poem because all my / Christmas poems are sad, but here I go again…’
Oh the joy of December. You can find some solace, perhaps, in yet another heart-warming outing from me in MIDNIGHT BESTIARIES.
#booksky #poetry #Christmas
I review Michael Nott’s magisterial new biography, THOM GUNN: A COOL QUEER LIFE, over at Wild Court. Thank you editor Robert Selby. 📚🖋️
#bookreviews #biography #poetry #booksky
#bookreviews #biography #poetry #booksky
November 26, 2024 at 12:47 PM
I review Michael Nott’s magisterial new biography, THOM GUNN: A COOL QUEER LIFE, over at Wild Court. Thank you editor Robert Selby. 📚🖋️
#bookreviews #biography #poetry #booksky
#bookreviews #biography #poetry #booksky
Imagining if this app was literally to just post blue skies all day 🦋
November 24, 2024 at 11:16 AM
Imagining if this app was literally to just post blue skies all day 🦋
You can preview MIDNIGHT BESTIARIES in the year-end anthology from @brokensleepbooks 🔥🐅📚
#writingcommunity #prosepoetry #poetry #booksky
#writingcommunity #prosepoetry #poetry #booksky
November 20, 2024 at 11:30 AM
You can preview MIDNIGHT BESTIARIES in the year-end anthology from @brokensleepbooks 🔥🐅📚
#writingcommunity #prosepoetry #poetry #booksky
#writingcommunity #prosepoetry #poetry #booksky
‘Who gets to be real? Who gets to be fully human—which nations and which relationships?’
—Thank you Tevin Gall for this roaring interview on MIDNIGHT BESTIARIES over at LoopTT!🙏🏾
📷 Azriel Boodram tt.loopnews.com/content/andr...
—Thank you Tevin Gall for this roaring interview on MIDNIGHT BESTIARIES over at LoopTT!🙏🏾
📷 Azriel Boodram tt.loopnews.com/content/andr...
November 13, 2024 at 9:53 PM
‘Who gets to be real? Who gets to be fully human—which nations and which relationships?’
—Thank you Tevin Gall for this roaring interview on MIDNIGHT BESTIARIES over at LoopTT!🙏🏾
📷 Azriel Boodram tt.loopnews.com/content/andr...
—Thank you Tevin Gall for this roaring interview on MIDNIGHT BESTIARIES over at LoopTT!🙏🏾
📷 Azriel Boodram tt.loopnews.com/content/andr...