Jurassic Coast by Jannine Horsford Book Launch
28/09/2024 - 3:30 PM
The Writer's Centre, 14 Alcazar Street, St. Clair
We're celebrating the launch of Jurassic Coast, a new chapbook by Jannine Horsford, winner of a Bocas Emerging Writers Fellowship in 2022, with readings and conversation featuring guest poet Desirรฉe Seebaran.
๐Sat 28 Sept, 3.30 to 5 pm
๐The Writers Centre, 14 Alcazar Street, St. Clair
๐Free and open to all
Published by Peekash Press, Jurassic Coast is a sequence of poems inspired by Horsfordโs time living on the south coast of England. The poems bring together a sensuous immersion in the rural landscape with the conundrum of being a stranger in a place imperfectly known, haunted by memories.
Horsford will be joined at the launch by guest poet Desirรฉe Seebaran, herself the winner of the 2021 Johnson and Amoy Achong Caribbean Writers Prize, administered by the Bocas Lit Fest. Seebaran will read from her own book in progress, and debut a chapbook version of a poem originally commissioned by the Bocas Lit Fest in 2020.
The publication of Jurassic Coast is the final stage of Horsfordโs Bocas Emerging Writers Fellowship, which also included a cash award and a yearโs mentorship. The other Bocas Emerging Writers Fellow appointed in 2022 was fiction writer Rajiv Ramkhalawan, whose chapbook The Birthday Cake will be published simultaneously, and formally launched later in 2024.
The fellowships were made possible by generous donations from Canisia Lubrin, winner of the overall 2021 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature; Dionne Brand, winner of the 2019 OCM Bocas Prize in the fiction category; Christina Sharpe, judge for the 2022 OCM Bocas Prize in the fiction category; and Allyson Holder.
The launch event is free and open to all, and copies of the chapbooks will be available for purchase at Paper Based Bookshop .
