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Longlisted for the 2020 BOCAS Prize for Caribbean Literature
A Telegraph Book of the Year 2019
Vahni Capildeo, author of Measures of Expatriation (Forward Prize, 2016), returns with a third Carcanet volume, Skin Can Hold. The collection marks an adventurous departure for a pen-and-paper poet. These texts are the fruit of collaborative experiments in theatre, dance and other performance, drawing on burlesque and mime as well as Capildeo’s fascination with Caribbean masquerade. The poems are astir with voices and bodies usually kept ‘between the lines’ of poetry: a weeping poltergeist disrupting the decorum of a lyric; polyglot workmen along an ivory-towercity road. Novels are turned inside out to become dramas of sleaze and surveillance.
The Last Poems of Jules Laforgue 
Pretend You Don't Know Me 
Gift of the Old One 
Over the Moon 
Selected Poems 1956-1994 
Is This a Poem?: What makes a poem, and how YOU can write one 
Cat Poems 
Strong Words 
A Sonnet to Science 
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats