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Like a Tree, Walking

  • ISBN-13: 9781800171954
  • Publisher: CARCANET PRESS
    Imprint: CARCANET PRESS
  • By Vahni Capildeo
  • Price: AUD $29.99
  • Stock: 3 in stock
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  • Local release date: 03/08/2022
  • Format: Paperback (216.00mm X 136.00mm) 96 pages Weight: 150g
  • Categories: Poetry by individual poets [DCF]
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Vahni Capildeo's Like a Tree Walking is a fresh departure, even for this famously innovative poet. Taking its title from a story of sight miraculously regained, this book draws on Capildeo's interest in ecopoetics and silence. Many pieces originate in specific places, from nocturnes and lullabies in hilly Port of Spain to 'stillness exercises' recording microenvironments - emotional and aural - around English trees. These journeys offer a configuration of the political that makes a space for new kinds of address, declaration and relation. Capildeo takes guidance from vernacular traditions of sensitivity ranging from Thomas A Clark and Iain Crichton Smith to the participants in a Leeds libraries project on the Windrush. Like a Tree Walking is finally a book defined by how it writes love.
Vahni Capildeo has worked in academia; in culture for development, with Commonwealth Writers; as an Oxford English Dictionary lexicographer. Capildeo has held the Judith E. Wilson Poetry Fellowship and the Harper-Wood Studentship at Cambridge, and a Douglas Caster Cultural Fellowship at the University of Leeds. Her poetry includes Venus as Bear, which was the Poetry Book Society Summer Choice 2018 and was shortlisted for the 2018 Forward Prize, and Measures of Expatriation, awarded the Forward Best Collection Prize 2016.
* Winner, 2021 The Poetry Book Society Winter Choice. * Vahni Capildeo's Like a Tree, Walking is a fresh departure, even for this famously innovative poet. Taking its title from a story of sight miraculously regained, this book draws on Capildeo's interest in ecopoetics and silence. Many pieces originate in specific places, from nocturnes and lullabies in hilly Port of Spain to 'stillness exercises' recording microenvironments – emotional and aural – around English trees. These journeys offer a configuration of the political that makes a space for new kinds of address, declaration and relation.
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