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Anthony Vahni Capildeo

Polkadot Wounds

Polkadot Wounds

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Polkadot Wounds is a poetry book that won the Windham-Campbell Prize for Poetry 2025, the OCM Bocas Poetry Prize for Caribbean Literature 2025, and the Telegraph Book of the Year 2024. It explores life in restless times, featuring conversations with others and reflections of encounters. Landscapes become landskips, playing on traditions of travel and nature writing, childlike spontaneity, and movement across gaps. The title is inspired by the stones of a ruined Norman castle in Cornwall and the local martyr, St Cuthbert Mayne.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 100 pages
Publication date: 25 July 2024
Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd


Polkadot Wounds, a captivating work of poetry by Capildeo, explores the complexities of life in our restless times. It invites us to engage in conversations with others, both living and deceased, offering glimpses of encounters and reflections. The landscapes in the book transform into landskips, blending traditions of travel and nature writing with a childlike spontaneity and movement across gaps. Dante's Divine Comedy serves as a framework for untimely deaths and breakthroughs of joy, particularly during the pandemic and in queer and far-flung communities. The book's title draws inspiration from the stones of the ruined Norman castle in Launceston, Cornwall, and the local martyr, St Cuthbert Mayne, where Capildeo served as a writer-in-residence with the Charles Causley Trust.

Weight: 124g
Dimension: 215 x 134 x 9 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781800174252

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