Polkadot Wounds

About Anthony Vahni Capildeo

Anthony Vahni Capildeo FRSL is a Trinidadian Scottish writer of poetry and non-fiction. Currently Professor and Writer in Residence at the University of York their site-specific word and visual art includes responses to Cornwall's former capital Launceston as the Causley Trust Poet in Residence (2022) and to the Ubatuba granite of the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds (2023) as well as to Scottish Irish and Caribbean built and natural environments. Their numerous books and pamphlets from No Traveller Returns (Salt 2003) Person Animal Figure (Landfill 2005) onwards are distinguished by deliberate engagement with independent and small presses. Their work has been recognized with the Cholmondeley Award (Society of Authors) and the Forward Poetry Prize for Best Collection. Their publications include Like a Tree Walking (Carcanet 2021) (Poetry Book Society Choice) and A Happiness (Intergraphia 2022). Their interests include silence translation theory medieval reworkings plurilingualism collaborative work and traditional masquerade. Recent commissions include research-based Windrush poems for Poet in the City and for the Royal Society of Literature. Capildeo served as a judge for the Jhalak Prize (2023).