Description
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.
It was such a treat to have Vahni with us at VERVE 2019 and she took the Saturday headline event by storrn as well as workshopping for us! A real legend who made a legend’s impact!
Price £11.99
ISBN: 9781800171954
Date: 25th November 2021
Format: Paperback
Extent: 96 pp
POETRY
