Archive - Novel Niche

January Reading: A Knife in the Heart of Being Known

James Baldwin, Canisia Lubrin, David Wojnarowicz, and others

Feb 16 •

Shivanee N. Ramlochan

Flank and Cutlass: Writing Love Poems

Feb 7 •

Shivanee N. Ramlochan

September 2024

Say to my pyre that I wore only gold to death

A poetic response to Olive Senior's "Meditation on Yellow"

Sep 28, 2024 •

Shivanee N. Ramlochan

December 2023

The Dread Unsayable: A Free 2024 Poetry Intensive

For queer Caribbean poets working towards a first full-length collection

Dec 7, 2023 •

Shivanee N. Ramlochan

April 2023

Read Dangerously, Write with Defiance: Our Secret Substack Chat

A semifrequent gathering for us to talk books, writing, and, as always, witchery

Apr 8, 2023 •

Shivanee N. Ramlochan

March 2023

Not Shackle, But Shell: A Catalogue Giveaway

On the Pods, Sea-Enshrined, of Wendy Nanan.

Mar 27, 2023 •

Shivanee N. Ramlochan

February 2023

The Rooms Within: "All the Dead, All the Living"

For the first in this poem annotation series, I turn to my own work, on Jouvay itself. Come lewwe play a mas.

Feb 20, 2023 •

Shivanee N. Ramlochan

The Sylvia I Loved, The Sylvia I Regretted

On visiting her gravesite, on ghosts, on the women we swallow daily.

Feb 11, 2023 •

Shivanee N. Ramlochan

September 2022

Taking Flight through the Front Teeth of Rage

A Reading Diary Whilst Abroad

Sep 15, 2022 •

Shivanee N. Ramlochan

May 2022

A Letter to the First of Us

Talking across the kala pani to my coolie foremother, who made the crossing, who led to all our arrivals.

May 30, 2022 •

Shivanee N. Ramlochan

A Present and Enduring Fat

On Threshing, Winnowing, and Buxoming the Body. On what it means to try to say we love *all* of ourselves.

May 24, 2022 •

Shivanee N. Ramlochan

April 2022

Put Your Hands On Me, with Full Consent

On Phagwa, physical intimacy, and the borders between permission and touch

Apr 9, 2022 •

Shivanee N. Ramlochan

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