Description
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.
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 £9.99
ISBN: 9781784107314
Date: 30th May 2019
Format: Paperback
Extent: 128 pp
POETRY
