I’m excited to announce that my latest poetry collection, ABiYA, was self-published on , Amazon KDP on 24th August 2023, and I especially wanted to announce it today, 9th September 2023. i love numbers (as much as i love words) and love to observe, honour and celebrate the most significant key dates for the people in my life, even when physically passed on/over, spiritually still very much ‘in’ my life. today, 09.09.2023, would have been my father’s 91st Birthday —…
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The Kahini.org website is no longer available, so I’m storing my interview with Jordan Hartt published in June 2021, here. Jordan Hartt: Thank you so much for taking the time to talk with Kahini about your work! I’d love to start with “Guabanex,” your most recent book. How did it go from initial inspiration to published work? Celia Sorhaindo: Dominica suffered a category five devastating hurricane in 2017, hurricane Maria, and it was a very traumatic time. Lots of things…
My first full length poetry collection, Radical Normalisation, was published by UK based publisher, Carcanet Press on 29th September 2022 UK (24th November 2022 USA). Radical Normalisation is an exploration into, and a pushing against, societies defined edges of what a person with a ‘normal’ mind is supposed to look, act and sound like. What does healing look like? Who gets to decide the boundaries of ‘normal’, in terms of how our brains work, what we see and experience as…
I was so grateful (and surprised) to have been invited in July, to virtually attend and read a few of my poems with Trinidadian writer and artist Danielle Boodoo-Fortuné, at the Festival Internacional de Poesía de Medellín 2022.…
Wow! After the launch of Guabancex in February 2020, who would have known how everything would change. But a lot of great things happened too. So grateful for all the events I was still able to take part in, those who read and reviewed Guabancex and the words that made their way into the world: Guabancex shortlisted for Rebel Women Lit Caribbean Readers’ Awards (Dec) Poem Doh Let Me Be Lonely published in PREE magazine (Nov) Reading of Weather Conditions,…
Thanks to Papillote Press for doing such a great job with publishing my hurricane Maria themed poetry pamphlet collection called Guabancex and to a whole list of other people too, for their love, support and encouragement. Special thanks to St. Lucian poet John Robert Lee for his kind words on the back cover “A new voice that speaks with sensitivity, maturity and assurance out of a horrendous experience. The final poem Hurricane PraXis (Xorcising Maria Xperience) is a tour de…