Channelling Queer Depths: An Evening with Poet Shivanee Ramlochan
To correspond with Hollow Earth: Art, Caves & The Subterranean Imaginary all are warmly invited to Channelling Queer Depths: An Evening with Poet Shivanee Ramlochan. Shivanee will give readings from her ground-breaking collection Everyone Knows I am a Haunting (2017), followed by a conversation with PhD queer literary researcher, Tom Lockwood-Moran. A particular point of interest will be Shivanee’s upcoming work of creative non-fiction, Unkillable (2023), centring how a writer channels their queer self through dangerous, unorthodox and taboo subjects. This event will explore how and why poetry chisels beneath the world's surface to expose queer depths, particularly informed by Shivanee's experience of Trinidadian cultures and subcultures.
About the event
Free. Booking required.
We are unable to provide British Sign Language interpretation for this event.
This event is partnered with the Formations programme at Bonington Gallery and their free workshop Writing Your Truth with Radical Honesty with Shivanee on Wed 16 Nov, booking link here. Please be advised spaces for this workshop are limited; email boningtongallery@ntu.ac.uk for more information.
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Safety during your visit
Due to COVID precautions, please do not attend this event if you/someone in your household is currently COVID-19 positive, has suspected symptoms, or is awaiting test results.
Staff and visitors are welcome to wear a face covering in all areas.
Shivanee Ramlochan is an Indo-Trinidadian poet, critic, and essayist, whose first poetry collection, Everyone Knows I Am a Haunting (2017), was shortlisted for the 2018 Forward Prize. Ramlochan's next work, the creative non-fiction Unkillable, is forthcoming from Noemi Press in Autumn 2023. Shivanee is the Book Reviews Editor for Caribbean Beat Magazine and works closely with Bocas Lit Fest, the Caribbean’s largest literary festival.
Tom Lockwood-Moran is a PhD queer literary researcher, funded by Midlands4Cities (AHRC), writing his thesis in English Literature, entitled: 'Queer Resistance(s): Contemporary Caribbean Communality'. Tom's project is supervised by experts from both Nottingham Trent University and The University of Leicester.Tom is currently an Hourly Paid Lecturer in Postcolonial Texts at NTU within English, Culture and Media.
Event:
Channelling Queer Depths: An Evening with Poet Shivanee RamlochanDates:
15 Nov 2022, 6.30pm–8pmSupported by:
