12 Podcast Episodes
Vahni Capildeo
Vahni Capildeo
‘I write because I must,’ says Vahni Capildeo, winner of the 2016 Forward Prize for Best Collection for Measures of Expa... Read more
12 Aug 2022
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37mins
Julian of Norwich & biscuits with Vahni Capildeo and Jeremy Noel-Tod
Julian of Norwich & biscuits with Vahni Capildeo and Jeremy Noel-Tod
Writer Vahni Capildeo stayed with us in a virtual residency back in February and is joined in this week's episode by Jer... Read more
29 Apr 2021
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55mins
Comic Timing: Holly Pester, Vahni Capildeo and Rachael Allen
Comic Timing: Holly Pester, Vahni Capildeo and Rachael Allen
Holly Pester's debut collection, Comic Timing (Granta), is disorienting, radical and extremely funny; Pester has a backg... Read more
7 Apr 2021
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1hr 5mins
51. Spring and Fall By Gerard Manley Hopkins - A Friend To Vahni Capildeo
51. Spring and Fall By Gerard Manley Hopkins - A Friend To Vahni Capildeo
In this episode, Forward Prize-winning poet Vahni Capildeo talks with us about the poem that has been a friend to them –... Read more
21 Sep 2020
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25mins
04 Isabel Galleymore on Vahni Capildeo's 'They (may forget (their names (if let out)))'
04 Isabel Galleymore on Vahni Capildeo's 'They (may forget (their names (if let out)))'
This episode's poem can be read in Venus as a Bear (Carcanet, 2018) or online here: https://www.theguardian.com/books/bo... Read more
1 Sep 2020
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1hr 22mins
A Conversation with Vidyan Ravinthiran and Vahni Capildeo
A Conversation with Vidyan Ravinthiran and Vahni Capildeo
Don Share speaks with Vidyan Ravinthiran and Vahni Capildeo about Ravinthiran’s essay on Capildeo’s work in the May 2020... Read more
25 May 2020
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37mins
Lockdown Episode 4: Vahni Capildeo & Michelle Green
Lockdown Episode 4: Vahni Capildeo & Michelle Green
Trinidadian-British poet Vahni Capildeo's poetry collections include No Traveller Returns (2003), Undraining Sea (2009),... Read more
24 May 2020
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39mins
Vahni Capildeo & Vivek Narayanan at St. Mark's (7.16.11)
Vahni Capildeo & Vivek Narayanan at St. Mark's (7.16.11)
Vahni Capildeo writes both poetry and prose. Her fourth book, Dark & Unaccustomed Words, is due out this year. She i... Read more
10 Oct 2019
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1hr 40mins
Vahni Capildeo
Vahni Capildeo
photo by Adrian PopeVahni Capildeo is a Trinidadian Scottish writer inspired by other voices, ranging from live Caribbea... Read more
3 May 2019
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23mins
Cambridge Literary Review 10: Vahni Capildeo, Drew Milne, Luke Roberts and Eley Williams
Cambridge Literary Review 10: Vahni Capildeo, Drew Milne, Luke Roberts and Eley Williams
Four of the most interesting poets working today read at the bookshop, to mark the publication of Cambridge Literary Rev... Read more
10 Oct 2017
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57mins