About Kingston

Amílcar Peter Sanatan

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About Kingston

Amílcar Peter Sanatan
Pages

20
Published

2025
Author

Amílcar Peter Sanatan

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In his chapbook debut, Amílcar Peter Sanatan adopts the role of a flâneur wandering About Kingston on a memory-haunted visit to Jamaica’s capital. Parallel to his explorations and ruminations, a love affair blossoms — with an unnamed woman as well as the city itself, teasing him with glimpses of possible other lives.

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About Kingston is T&T author Amílcar Peter Sanatan’s chapbook debut. Selected as a Bocas Breakthrough Fellow, Amílcar Peter Sanatan produced this chapbook during his fellowship term, which included mentoring by Rajiv Mohabir, author of Whale Aria.

The Bocas Breakthrough Fellowships were awarded in 2024 to five early-career Caribbean writers, to support them in advancing or completing a debut book of fiction or poetry, The fellows were Heather Barker of Barbados, Stephanie Koathes and Rhea Manley of Jamaica, and June Aming and Amílcar Peter Sanatan of Trinidad and Tobago.

The Bocas Breakthrough Fellowships are funded by Creative Caribbean, a joint project implemented by UNESCO, the CARICOM Secretariat and The University of the West Indies (UWI), with funding from the European Union and the Organisation of African, Caribbean and Pacific States, under the ACP-EU 11th EDP Culture Programme. Creative Caribbean brings together to achieve shared goals and initiatives for the advancement of the Caribbean as a cultural and creative space and economic player.

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Pages

20
Published

2025
Author

Amílcar Peter Sanatan

Amílcar Peter Sanatan

Amílcar Peter Sanatan is an interdisciplinary Caribbean artist, educator, and activist. He is from Trinidad and Tobago and currently works in Helsinki, Finland. His multilingual poetry, essays, short fiction, interviews, and book reviews have appeared in regional and international literary magazines and anthologies.

Sanatan also co-edited two special issues on gender and cultural studies in academic journals. For over a decade, he has co-created and led spoken word open mics, literary publics, and communities for social change. 

He is an alumnus of the Cropper Foundation and Obsidian Foundation writers’ residencies. He was a Promundo Writing Fellow.

This chapbook is an excerpt from a larger poetry collection in progress, which he worked on during his 2024 Bocas Breakthrough Fellowship, mentored by author Rajiv Mohabir.

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‘About Kingston’ peoples for its readers a Caribbean of simultaneity, of those speakers and spoken of dreaming an end to Empire through connection and nuanced love. Sanatan’s is a new, searing, breakout voice that makes me believe again that poetry’s velocity is one of transformation and political change. I can’t wait to keep reading his work and be changed forever.

— Rajiv Mohabir, author of Whale Aria