Skin Can Hold by Vahni Capildeo
The third collection from Forward Prize-winning poet Vahni Capildeo.
'Capildeo is a demanding writer, someone who stretches the conventions of the lyric poem in unprecedented ways; [..] a direct and sensual poet, warmly intimate and very funny.' - David Wheatley, The Guardian; 'This is poetry that transforms. When people in the future seek to know what it's like to live between places, traditions, habits and cultures, they will read this. Here is the language for what expatriation feels like.' - Malika Booker [on Measures of Expatriation], Chair of the 2016 Forward Prize judging panel
Vahni Capildeo is a Trinidadian Scottish writer inspired by other voices, ranging from live Caribbean connexions and an Indian diaspora background to the landscapes where Capildeo travels and lives. Capildeo's 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. Skin Can Hold reflects on experiments with masquerade and embodiment undertaken during Capildeo's Judith E. Wilson Poetry Fellowship and Harper-Wood Studentship at Cambridge, and completed thanks to a Douglas Caster Cultural Fellowship at the University of Leeds.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781784107314 |
| ISBN 10 | 178410731X |
| Title | Skin Can Hold |
| Author | Vahni Capildeo |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Carcanet Press Ltd |
| Year published | 2019-05-30 |
| Number of pages | 128 |
| Prizes | Short-listed for The BOCAS Prize for Caribbean Literature 2020 |
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