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Polkadot Wounds

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Multi-award-winning poet Capildeo's new collection brings home the delight, frustration, restlessness and continuity of striving to live a connected human life in our fragmenting times.
Anthony (Vahni) Capildeo FRSL is a Trinidadian Scottish writer of poetry and non-fiction. Their numerous books and pamphlets are distinguished by deliberate engagement with independent and small presses. Their work has been recognized with the Cholmondeley Award (Society of Authors) and the Forward Poetry Prize for Best Collection. Recent commissions include research-based Windrush poems for Poet in the City and for the Royal Society of Literature. Capildeo served as a judge for the Jhalak Prize (2023). They live in Edinburgh.
• Previous collection Like a Tree, Walking was a PBS Choice and shortlisted for the Jhalak Prize 2022 • This fifth Carcanet collection from the Trinidadian, Forward Prize-winning poet brings home the delight and frustration of striving to live a connected human life in our fragmenting times • Inspired by travelling and working on commissions: collection title inspired by the stones of the ruined Norman castle in Launceston and the wounds depicted in the statue of the local martyr, St Cuthbert Mayne • Explores landscapes and memory, transformations of the self, and plays on Dante’s Divine Comedy to explore dreams, grief and untimely deaths (both during the pandemic and in queer and overseas communities) • Professor and Writer in Residence at the University of York
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