Biography
Vahni Capildeo FRSL is Writer in Residence at the University of York. Their poetry and non-fiction is informed by the plurality of voice, time, and place in lived experience. Recent publications are Skin Can Hold(Carcanet, 2019), which offers interactive texts for readers to bring to life, with a central response to Martin Carter; Odyssey Calling(Sad Press, 2020) which deals with migrations of the animate and inanimate, and Light Site (Periplum Poetry, 2020), ‘expanded translations’ including sixteenth-century French love poetry translated into calypso, with a cover design by the renowned Andre Bagoo. They have received the Cholmondeley Award (Society of Authors); the Forward Poetry Prize for Best Collection for Measures of Expatriation (Carcanet, 2016); the Judith E. Wilson Fellowship and Harper-Wood Studentship (University of Cambridge); a Douglas Caster Cultural Fellowship (University of Leeds), and a UNESCO Poetry Fellowship (University of East Anglia).
Photo credit Hayley Madden
All events with Vahni Capildeo
Revolution time
19 Sep 2020
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Online
UWI Virtual Campus Lit Week
23 Mar 2020
All Day
https://campuslitweek2020.weebly.com/
Sunday Launch
29 Apr 2018
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Old Fire Station
Crossing Tongues
29 Apr 2018
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
1st Floor Seminar Room
Robber Talk
26 Apr 2018
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Old Fire Station
The books that made me
30 Apr 2017
10:00 am - 11:00 am
Old Fire Station
Poetry Forward: celebrating the vitality of contemporary Caribbean poetry
27 Apr 2017
7:00 pm - 9:30 pm
Kaiso Blues Café, 85 Woodford Street
Workshop: Tongueless whispering 2
27 Apr 2017
10:30 am - 12:30 pm
1st Floor Seminar Room
Workshop: Tongueless whispering 1
26 Apr 2017
10:30 am - 12:30 pm
1st Floor Seminar Room
Shakespeare and me
01 May 2016
10:00 am - 11:00 am
Old Fire Station
Remembering the Merikins: River of Freedom
30 Apr 2016
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Trinity Cathedral, Abercromby Street
Remembering the Merikins: Land and freedom
30 Apr 2016
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
AV Room
The return of Victor Questel
30 Apr 2016
4:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Old Fire Station
Remembering the Merikins: Short Documentary
30 Apr 2016
4:00 pm - 4:30 pm
AV Room
One-on-one with Vahni Capildeo
28 Apr 2016
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Old Fire Station