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Vahni Capildeo
Vahni Capildeo writes across genres. Her Measures of Expatriation (Carcanet) won the Forward Prize for Best Collection 2016. The Harper-Wood Studentship (St John's College, Cambridge) supported her recent travel for research into cocoa growing in Trinidad and traces of a woman gardener in Kenya.


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Everywhere and Nowhere

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April 2017

Vahni Capildeo

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April 2017

Part of my reluctance to write on citizenship is that as a poet, a worker in delicate, would-be-truthful language, I am wary of pronouncements...

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November 2015

Anatomy of a Democracy: Javier Cercas

Duncan Wheeler

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November 2015

20 November marks the fortieth anniversary of the death of General Franco. And while the insurrectionist’s victory in the...

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January 2012

Tynemouth Lodge

W. N. Herbert

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January 2012

‘Sometimes I go to the tavern and get drunk.          What of it?’                                 Nesimi 1 Bars tend us...

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July 2012

Run, Comrades, #YOLO! — Cursory Notes on Radical Hashtag Forms

Huw Lemmey

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July 2012

I’m not up on the Internet, but I hear that is a democratic possibility. People can connect with each...

 

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