Tanicia Pratt: Poinciana Tell Me ta Burn

Witnessing the Poinciana tree in her yard bloom, three years after Hurricane Matthew’s destruction, Tanicia Pratt narrates personal feelings of loss, death and rebirth. Through its fiery resurgence after the storm, Poinciana Tell Me ta Burn is both a love letter to the summer blossom, and a signal of the parallel transitions shared between humans and their environment. 

About the director
Tanicia Pratt is a Bahamian poet, author, editor, and conceptual artist whose interdisciplinary work spans film, soundscape, and performance. Through a feminist lens, she reimagines the Caribbean landscape by engaging history, culture, language, and memory.

Her writing has appeared in regional and international publications such as PREE, Bad Form, POUI, Lungs Project, and Rewrite London. Her books, I Dream Baby Not Fish… and BLUE, are both housed in the National Poetry Library of England. She has performed for Write About Now, the Central Bank of The Bahamas Art Gallery, the National Art Gallery of The Bahamas, The Bahamas’ 2015 Independence Celebration, and Ormsby Hall in Kingston, Jamaica.

Tanicia holds a Bachelor’s in Marketing from the University of The Bahamas and a Master’s in Poetic Practice from Royal Holloway, University of London.

Her current collection, BLUE, explores the emotional spectrum of the colour blue for Bahamian people, delving into love, depression, generational trauma, women’s reproductive health, and the environment.