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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

feature

April 2017

Vahni Capildeo

feature

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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fiction

March 2016

Red

Madeleine Watts

fiction

March 2016

It was the first week of 1976 and she had just turned 17.   The day school let out...

poetry

February 2012

Giant Impact Hypothesis

James Midgley

poetry

February 2012

I bought a satellite’s eye from the market. To look through it involved the whole god-orbit, a cotton-wooled Faberge...

Art

July 2014

Operation Paperclip

Naomi Pearce

Patrick Goddard

Art

July 2014

‘I began at this point to feel that politics was not something “out there” but something “in here” and of...

 

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