Vahni Capildeo

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

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

55mins

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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

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

25mins

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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

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

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

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

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

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

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