Measures of Expatriation by Anthony V Capildeo
New collection from well-loved and experimental Trinidadian poet, and 2014 Forward Prize judge.
"Capildeo is both Trinidadian and universalThe reader is taken on an inventive and linguistically fresh journey." Tears in the Fence" "
Anthony V. Capildeo FRSL is a Trinidadian Scottish writer of poetry and non-fiction. Currently Professor and Writer in Residence at the University of York, their site-specific word and visual art includes responses to Cornwall’s former capital, Launceston, as the Causley Trust Poet in Residence (2022) and to the Ubatuba granite of the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds (2023), as well as to Scottish, Irish, and Caribbean built and natural environments. Their numerous books and pamphlets, from No Traveller Returns (Salt, 2003), Person Animal Figure (Landfill, 2005) onwards, are distinguished by deliberate engagement with independent and small presses. Their work has been recognized with the Cholmondeley Award (Society of Authors), the Forward Poetry Prize for Best Collection, the OCM Bocas Prize for Poetry, the Windham-Campbell Prize, and the Saltire National Poetry Award. Their publications include Like a Tree, Walking (Carcanet, 2021) (Poetry Book Society Choice), and A Happiness (Intergraphia, 2022). Their interests include silence, translation theory, medieval reworkings, plurilingualism, collaborative work, and traditional masquerade. 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). Their non-fiction début, Masqueraders: Selected Essays, will be published in July 2026.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781784101688 |
| ISBN 10 | 1784101680 |
| Title | Measures of Expatriation |
| Author | Anthony V Capildeo |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Carcanet Press Ltd |
| Year published | 2016-01-28 |
| Number of pages | 95 |
| Prizes | Winner of Forward Poetry Prize: Best Collection 2016, Short-listed for T S Eliot Prize 2016 |
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