Odyssey Calling

Listen. Blue.
The flow of blue capillaries.
Sleepy fish, all blue in their flight...

Vahni Capildeo is a Trinidadian Scottish writer inspired by other voices, ranging from live Caribbean connexions and an Indian diaspora background to the landscapes where Capildeo travels and lives. Their poetry (seven books and four pamphlets) includes Measures of Expatriation, awarded the Forward Prize for Best Collection in 2016. Following a DPhil in Old Norse literature, Capildeo has worked in academia; in culture for development, with Commonwealth Writers; and as an Oxford English Dictionary lexicographer. Capildeo held the Judith E. Wilson Poetry Fellowship and Harper-Wood Studentship at Cambridge, and more recently a Douglas Caster Cultural Fellowship at the University of Leeds.

Asculta. Albastru. Fluxul de capilare albastre. Pesti adormiti, toti albastri in zbor ... Vahni Capildeo este un scriitor trinianian scotian inspirat de alte voci, variind de la conexiuni vii din Caraibe si un fundal de diaspora indiana pana la peisajele in care calatoreste si traieste Capildeo.