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Intertitles - An anthology at the intersection of writing & visual art (Paperback)
Jess Chandler, Aimee Selby, Hana Noorali & Lynton Talbot; Foreword by Isabel Waidner; Contributions by Fatema Abdoolcarim, Victoria Adukwei Bulley, Bebe Ashley, Anna Barham, Paul Becker, Adam Christensen, Sophie Collins, CAConrad, Rory Cook, Jesse Darling, Anais Duplan, Inua Ellams, Olamiju Fajemisin, Caspar Heinemann, Johanna Hedva, Sophie Jung, Sharon Kivland, Tarek Lakhrissi, Ghislaine Leung, Quinn Latimer, Jordan Lord, Dasha Loyko, Charlotte Prodger, Laure Prouvost; Afterword by Vahni Capildeo; Designed by Traven T. Croves; Contributions by …
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Shortlisted for the 2022 Jhalak Prize The Poetry Book Society
Winter Choice 2021 Vahni Capildeo's Like a Tree, Walking is a fresh
departure, even for this famously innovative poet. Taking its title
from a story of sight miraculously regained, this book draws on
Capildeo's interest in ecopoetics and silence. Many pieces
originate in specific places, from nocturnes and lullabies in hilly
Port of Spain to 'stillness exercises' recording microenvironments
- emotional and aural - around English trees. These journeys offer
a configuration of the political that makes a space for new kinds
of address, declaration and relation. Capildeo takes guidance from
vernacular traditions of sensitivity ranging from Thomas A Clark
and Iain Crichton Smith to the participants in a Leeds libraries
project on the Windrush. Like a Tree, Walking is finally a book
defined by how it writes love.
'Expatriation: my having had a patria, a fatherland, to leave, did
not occur to me until I was forced to invent one. [...] This luxury
of inattention, invention, and final mismatch...a 'Trinidad' being
created that did not take my Trinidad away (my Trinidad takes
itself away, in reality, over time)...that is expatriation, no? An
exile, a migrant, a refugee, would have been in more of a hurry,
would have been more driven out or driven towards, would have been
seeking and finding not.'In Measures of Expatriation Vahni
Capildeo's poems and prose-poems speak of the complex alienation of
the expatriate, and address wider issues around identity in
contemporary Western society. Born in Trinidad and resident in the
UK, Capildeo rejects the easy depiction of a person as a neat,
coherent whole - 'pure is a strange word' -embracing instead a
pointilliste self, one grounded in complexity. In these texts sense
and syntax are disrupted; languages rub and intersect; dream
sequences, love poems, polylogues and borrowed words build into a
precarious self-assemblage.' Cliche', she writes, 'is spitting into
the sea', and in this book poetry is still a place where words and
names, with their power to bewitch and subjugate, may be disrupted,
reclaimed. The politics of the body, and cultures of sexual
objectification, gender inequality and casual racism, are the
borders across which Capildeo homes, seeking the modest luxury of
being 'looked at as if one is neutral ground'. In the end it is
language itself, the determination to speak, to which the poet
finds she belongs: 'Language is my home, I say; not one particular
language.' Measures of Expatriation is in the vanguard of
literature arising from the aftermath of Empire, with a fearless
and natural complexity. 'Expatriation: my having had a patria, a
fatherland, to leave, did not occur to me until I was forced to
invent one. [...] This luxury of inattention, invention, and final
mismatch...a 'Trinidad' being created that did not take my Trinidad
away (my Trinidad takes itself away, in reality, over time)...that
is expatriation, no? An exile, a migrant, a refugee, would have
been in more of a hurry, would have been more driven out or driven
towards, would have been seeking and finding not.'
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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Utter (Paperback, New)
Vahni Capildeo
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Exploring a universe where anything can happen, because there is
nothing that can t be imagined and there s no connection between
different experiences that can t be made, "Utter" breaks down old
boundaries: between the past and present, between human and animal,
animate and inanimate, between the Caribbean and the global
elsewhere, between the experienced world and the world of books.
Vahni Capildeo rarely appears to speak in her own voice but creates
a whole range of striking and sometimes mysterious personas; in the
dialogue among the voices in the poems, a way of seeing,
multifarious as it is, begins to emerge. The poems express a view
that finds much in the world that is unjust, cruel, corrupt, and
hypocritical but also finds moments of community and tenderness;
there is darkness and there is humor, and sometimes the latter
seems the only possible response to the former."
Sean Scully (b.1945) is an Irish-born, American-based painter and
printmaker, best known for his monumental oil paintings which draw
on the traditions of Abstract Expressionism. This catalogue
showcases a recent body of work inspired by the National Gallery's
own collection and in particular by J.M.W. Turner's The Evening
Star (c.1830). For Scully, this elegiac picture constitutes one of
Turner's most profound paintings, leading to new departures in his
own work. Using the motif of stripes or chequerboards, Scully
evokes landscapes and architecture, horizons, fields, and
coastlines, in which his contemplative forms become reminders of
personal experiences and distinctive moments. Vast, bold panel
paintings with richly textured surfaces are illustrated together
with delicate works on paper: aquatints and luminous pastels. The
accompanying text includes newly commissioned essays, and poetry by
Vahni Capildeo and Kelly Grovier, while a unique photo essay by
Irish novelist Eimear McBride highlights the sweeping impasto,
strong brushstrokes, and vivid colors that distinguish Scully's
painting.
Vahni Capildeo is a British Trinidadian writer of poetry and prose.
Her recent work also appears in New Poetries VI (Carcanet, 2015).
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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The Best British Poetry 2012 (Paperback, New)
Sasha Dugdale; Series edited by Roddy Lumsden; Contributions by Fleur Adcock, Patience Agbabi, Tara Bergin, …
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The Best British Poetry 2012 presents the finest and most engaging
poems found in literary magazines and webzines over the past year.
The material gathered represents the rich variety of current UK
poetry. Each poem is accompanied by a note by the poet explaining
the inspiration for the poem. An indispensable guide to British
poetry and a must-have purchase for anyone interested in the art,
from newcomers to the most experienced professional and all
creative writing students working in English.
This poetry collection includes prose. Some pieces tell stories.
Others half-express, half-explain, a certain pressure of situation.
Poems in a book do not sound, or signify, as do poems extracted, or
composed, to stand alone. The sequence matters, as does the whole.
Prose, by the fact of its inclusion in a poetry collection, calls
attention to its qualities, and to poetry's differences, as it
cannot do elsewhere. Writers pick up on, think their way into,
other voices. If this is objectionable, so is every attempt to
understand others. The words on my pages derive from various areas
in my mental landscape. One example: having read some Anglo-Saxon,
the poetry of a people who understood the sea, I sought a way to
render the rhythms and memories that, in England, recalled me to
Trinidad. Without imitation, without the superimposition of one
tradition on another experience, different bindings of language
became available to tie and loosen what held my mind. The
influences, and processes, are many and ongoing. I realized that
this shifting of modes, which initially seemed natural, was not
universally obvious. This became a concern within the writing.
Identity politics; the lyrical I; were inadequate to a sense of
self evolving from others and their words, accessible or arcane.
This book is an autobiography, moving outwards from Trinidad; from
the mind that feels free to report on the world, into the mind that
knows it must question itself. Finally it becomes a way of
honouring the dead, a logical journey's-end.
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