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Shivanee Ramlochan

Shivanee Ramlochan is a Trinidadian poet, essayist, arts reporter and book blogger. She writes about Caribbean books for The Trinidad and Tobago Guardian, is the Book Reviews Editor for Caribbean Beat Magazine and is the official blogger for the NGC Bocas Lit Fest, the Anglophone Caribbean's largest literary festival. In 2015, she was shortlisted for the Hollick Arvon Caribbean Writers Prize. Her first book of poems, Everyone Knows I Am a Haunting, is forthcoming in July 2017 from Peepal Tree Press.

Clink Clink

When you were young, you learned to keep out of the bar. This kept you decent. You had scrubbed knees, a moon face, two hairplaits like black rope, thick as pregnant pit vipers with red ribbon tongues. At nine, you …

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