Vahni Capildeo
Vahni Capildeo is a British Trinidadian writer. Their poetry (seven books and four pamphlets) includes Measures of Expatriation, awarded the Forward Prize for Best Collection in 2016. Following a DPhil in Old Norse literature, Capildeo has worked in academia; in culture for development, with Commonwealth Writers; and as an Oxford English Dictionary lexicographer. Capildeo held the Judith E. Wilson Poetry Fellowship and Harper-Wood Studentship at Cambridge, and more recently a Douglas Caster Cultural Fellowship at the University of Leeds.
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Poetry | The Online Edition
Windrush Reflections
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‘It is not informational, it is / not a blameshift, it is not / all-lives-matter top down and sideways blank.’
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Poetry | The Online Edition
Assuming the Habits of the Day and Night
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‘my every day is a being in of being / a mixity of worlds’
Essays & MemoirEssays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Microtravel: Home and Away
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‘The place I thought I knew best had become unknown territory, by the perhaps not-so-simple process of taking a few steps.’
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Poetry | The Online Edition
Two Poems
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‘Fingers twirl / composite stems whose colour / twist rock-candies, snake-ladders / precious yellow, less-rare green.’
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Issue 136
Is Fraid I Fraid Calendars
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‘Haven’t you noticed people / are different since then?’