Capildeo, Vahni
About Vahni Capildeo
Biography (Poetry International Archives)
Biography and Poetry Readings (The Poetry Archive)
Reviews
Richardson, Graeme. "For Speak Read Seethe: A Ludic Poet who is Never Trivial." Times Literary Supplement, no. 6050, 2019
Ledgister, F.S. J. "Utter." Caribbean Quarterly, vol. 63, no. 2-3, 2017
Merritt, Amanda. “Measures of Expatriation by Vahni Capildeo.” The London Magazine, 11 May 2016
Parmar, Sandeep. “Measures of Expatriation by Vahni Capildeo Review – ‘Language is My Home’.” The Guardian, 19 Feb. 2016
Sheerman, Lucy. "Coast to Coast." PN Review, vol. 43, no. 1, 2016
Wood, Dawn. “Seas and Trees.” Dundee University Review of the Arts, undated
Interviews
Estruch, Sarala. “Sarala Estruch Interviews Vahni Capildeo.” Estruch Notebook, 13 Dec. 2018
Parmar, Sandeep. “The Wolf Interview: Vahni Capildeo.” The Wolf, vol. 34, 2016 (PDF)
Sheikh, Zannab. "Interview with Vahni Capildeo." I Don't Call Myself a Poet, 15 Aug. 2012
Laughlin, Nicholas. "The Liberty of the Imagination." MaComère, vol. 13, no. 1-2, 2012
Criticism
Ravinthiran, Vidyan. "Myriad Minded." Poetry Magazine, vol. 216, no. 2, 2020
George, Dai. "Sin/tax: Grammar and Contemporary Poets of Colour." Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry, vol. 12, no.1, 2020
Jenkins, Alan. "The Decade of Women." Times Literary Supplement, no. 6090, 2019
Noel-Tod, Jeremy. “’Immeasurable as One’: Vahni Capildeo’s Prose Poetics.” British Prose Poetry: The Poems without Lines, Monson (ed.), 2018
Works
Poetry Collections
Odyssey Calling (2020)
Skin Can Hold (2019)
Seas and Trees (2018)
Venus as a Bear (2018)
Measures of Expatriation (2016)
Simple Complex Shapes (2015)
Utter (2013)
Dark and Unaccustomed Words (2011)
Undraining Sea (2009)
Person Animal Figure (2005)
No Traveller Returns (2003)
Essays/Articles/Non-Fiction/Short Stories
“Echoes from a Conference on Crisis.” PN Review, vol. 47, no. 1, 2020
“Odyssey Response.” PN Review, vol. 46, no. 4, 2020
“Letter from Trinidad.” PN Review, vol. 46, no. 6, 2020
“In Praise of Birds.” PN Review, vol. 46, no. 5, 2020
“‘Listen, Pops’: Desdemona Speaking.” PN Review, vol. 46, no. 4, 2020
“Of Pine Trees and Silence.” PN Review, vol. 46, no. 3, 2020
“Even You Song.” PN Review, vol. 46, no. 2, 2019
“Speaking Seahorse.” PN Review, vol. 46, no. 1, 2019
“Letter from Trinidad.” PN Review, vol. 45, no. 4, 2019
"Punishable Bodies: Poetry on the Offensive." Poetry Review, vol. 107, no. 2, 2017
Capildeo, Vahni, and Andre Bagoo. "Disappearing Houses." Wasafiri, vol. 28, no. 2, 2013
"A Brighter Sun: 'I Still Want to See How the Story Unfolds'-Conversations with a Novel." Journal of West Indian Literature, vol. 20, no. 2, 2012