After an Unspeaking

Anthony Vahni Capildeo, Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, is Professor at the University of York and an Honorary Student of Christ Church, Oxford. A Trinidadian Scottish writer of poetry and non-fiction, Capildeo’s interests include traditional masquerade, silence, plurilingualism, and place. Their nine books and eight pamphlets have been recognized with awards including the Windham-Campbell Prize for Poetry, the OCM Bocas Prize for Poetry, the Cholmondeley Award, and the Forward Prize. Capildeo has served as a guest editor of a special ecopoetics issue of Stand magazine, and as a contributing editor at PN Review and the Caribbean Review of Books.