Midnight Bestiaries by Andre Bagoo Peter Sirr for the special kind of

for the special kind of emotional not-quite-therapy that the best poetry provides

Commenting on Hoskote's poetry on the Poetry International website

doppelgängers and hauntings

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

In Sentenced to Life

Midnight Bestiaries by Andre Bagoo Peter Sirr for the special kind ofWe 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