Polkadot wounds / Anthony Vahni Capildeo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Capildeo, Vahni, 1973- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English poetry--21st century.

English poetry.

Poetry, Modern--21st century.

Poetry, Modern.

Authors, Trinidadian.

Authors, Scottish.

Physical Description:

99 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Carcanet Press Ltd., 2024.

Summary:

Polkadot Wounds is a delight, wrestling with life in our restless times. Capildeo entices us to enter conversations with others (dead and living), amongst glimpsing reflections of encounters. Landscapes become 'landskips', playing on traditions of travel and nature writing, childlike spontaneity and movement across gaps. Dante's Divine Comedy frames untimely deaths and breakthroughs of joy, during the pandemic and in queer and far-flung communities. The title of the book is inspired by the stones of the ruined Norman castle in Launceston, Cornwall, and the local martyr, St Cuthbert Mayne, where Capildeo was writer-in-residence with the Charles Causley Trust.

ISBN:

180017425X

9781800174252

OCLC:

1413943281