Everyone knows i am a haunting, paperback/shivanee ramlochan

Ramlochans poems take the reader through a series of imaginative narratives that are at once emotionally familiar and compelling, even as the characters evoked and the happenings they describe are heavily symbolic.

Her poems reference the language and structural patterns of the genres of fantasy or speculative fiction, though with her own distinctive features, including the presence of such folkloric Trinidadian figures as the Duenne, those wandering lost spirits whose feet point backwards.

About the Author: Shivanee Ramlochan s poetry has been published in tongues of the ocean and The Caribbean Review of Books , and is forthcoming in Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism .

She is an alumna of the 2010 Cropper Foundation Residential Workshop for Caribbean Writers.

In 2013, she was selected as one of three New Talent Showcase writers at the NGC Bocas Lit Fest.