Midnight Bestiaries by Andre Bagoo memory — Jeff Alessandrelli

— Jeff Alessandrelli

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

or a shout comes up to the window

cultural habits

The collection arcs through time

Midnight Bestiaries by Andre Bagoo memory — Jeff AlessandrelliWe 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