Longlisted for the 2020 BOCAS Prize for Caribbean Literature. A
Telegraph Book of the Year 2019. Vahni Capildeo, author of Measures
of Expatriation (Forward Prize, 2016), returns with a third
Carcanet volume, Skin Can Hold. The collection marks an adventurous
departure for a pen-and-paper poet. These texts are the fruit of
collaborative experiments in theatre, dance and other performance,
drawing on burlesque and mime as well as Capildeo's fascination
with Caribbean masquerade. The poems are astir with voices and
bodies usually kept `between the lines' of poetry: a weeping
poltergeist disrupting the decorum of a lyric; polyglot workmen
along an ivory-towercity road. Novels are turned inside out to
become dramas of sleaze and surveillance.
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