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Amílcar Sanatan

Amílcar Peter Sanatan is an interdisciplinary Caribbean artist. He is a PhD. candidate in Cultural Studies at The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Campus. His multilingual creative writing has appeared in Caribbean and international literary magazines. He won the Bridget Jones Caribbean Arts Award (United Kingdom, 2020) for poetry and his creative non-fiction was shortlisted for the Johnson and Amoy Achong Prize for Caribbean Writers (Trinidad and Tobago, 2020) and he was selected as a Bocas Breakthrough Fellow (Trinidad and Tobago, 2024) for poetry.

Coconut Drop

Some days after work, I want a coconut drop – five dollar miracle from the small bakery on Pashley Street. Sweet sustenance in the ghetto, a treat villagers taste and savour when they reckon they cannot buy or live on …

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Calypso from a Cemetery Slum

Idle skulls heap in the corner of tombs, I scrub the art, sometimes paint sky blue, Tuscan sunset, fuchsia to give a kind of simple praise. In the periphery of Urbanisation’s philosophy, children dream kingdoms of fine passages, repeated hammock …

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Dry Cry

Old men in open shirts and give-away caps sit royally on the staircase of the community parlour. Their teeth grind like their knees in the picong, empty quarrels about cricket and young boys on the port smuggling drugs in the …

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