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Vahni Capildeo is the author of: Measures of Expatriation which won the 2016 Forward Prize for poetry. She read from her book here at the Ted Hughes Poetry Festival in Mexborough 23/25th. June 2017. Hers is a rather hard read, a wee bit demanding perhaps but certainly original and provoking. I now have a signed copy so never need be bored again... her publisher is quoted below: ‘Expatriation: my having had a patria, a fatherland, to leave, did not occur to me until I was forced to invent one. [...] This luxury of inattention, invention, and final mismatch...a ‘Trinidad’ being created that did not take my Trinidad away (my Trinidad takes itself away, in reality, over time)...that is expatriation, no? An exile, a migrant, a refugee, would have been in more of a hurry, would have been more driven out or driven towards, would have been seeking and finding not.’In Measures of Expatriation Vahni Capildeo’s poems and prose-poems speak of the complex alienation of the expatriate, and address wider issues around identity in contemporary Western society. Born in Trinidad and resident in the UK, Capildeo rejects the easy depiction of a person as a neat, coherent whole – ‘pure is a strange word’ -embracing instead a pointilliste self, one grounded in complexity. In these texts sense and syntax are disrupted; languages rub and intersect; dream sequences, love poems, polylogues and borrowed words build into a precarious self-assemblage" |
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