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This collection of short stories takes many of the themes from his poems and gives them a little more room. The quality of writing is a delight, characters fully developed even in this short form.
Exploring the lives of Trinidandian men, especially gay men, Bagoo combines much humour with a sadness that carries deep authenticity. When it is funny, you are laughing with the characters not at them – it is generous to them.
The story MS. about a writer whose work is mistaken for autobiography had a strong echo to The Night Listener that I had just read but also makes us very aware of how much we might be assuming that Bagoo’s accounts of the experiences of gay Trinidandian men were his own experiences. The idea that there is nothing autobiographical in this collection is silly, but how much, and which bits, that we can not say.
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