The Poetry Book Society Summer 2018 Choice. Shortlisted for The
2018 Forward Prize for Best Collection. Vahni Capildeo's Venus as a
Bear collects poems on animals, art, language, the sea, thinghood,
metaphor, description, and dance. They tend toward, and tend to,
the inanimate and non-human, tenderly disclosing their forms of
sentience. We have feelings for creatures, objects and places, but
where do these affinities come from? How do things, as things,
affect us, remain mysterious while making themselves known? For
Capildeo answers formed at their own pace, while waiting for
lambing at a friend's farm; exploring the Ashmolean Museum in
Oxford; criss-crossing the British Isles with the Out of Bounds
poetry project; or hearing of Africa and the Romans in Scotland, of
Guyana and Shakespeare, while standing over-the-boots deep in a
freezing sea off the coast of Wales. Many of the poems respond to
real places, objects and people, as investigations, meditations, or
dedications. They dwell on bodies and dwell in the body, inviting
ardent, open forms of reading, in the spirit of their composition.
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