{"id":972,"date":"2024-11-25T19:53:22","date_gmt":"2024-11-25T19:53:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tse.spyrosntanos.com\/person\/vahni-capildeo\/"},"modified":"2025-06-09T13:06:25","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T12:06:25","slug":"anthony-v-capildeo","status":"publish","type":"person","link":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/person\/anthony-v-capildeo\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthony V. Capildeo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anthony V. Capildeo is a Trinidadian British writer whose publications include <em>Measures of Expatriation<\/em> (Carcanet Press, 2016), <em>Simple Complex Shapes<\/em> (Shearsman Books, 2015) and <em>Utter<\/em> (Peepal Tree Press, 2013). They hold a DPhil in Old Norse and are interested in multilingualism, creative reworkings, and the boundaries between the human and the natural. Their collaborative work on performance and installation includes responses to Euripides\u2019 <em>Bacchae<\/em>, \u2018Radical Shakespeare\u2019, and Martin Carter\u2019s revolutionary writings from Guyana. The Harper-Wood Studentship (St John\u2019s College, Cambridge) supported their travel for research during 2015-16. They were awarded the Forward Prize for Best Collection for <em>Measures of Expatriation<\/em> in 2016, which also featured on the T. S. Eliot Prize Shortlist that year. Since then, they have published further titles,\u00a0including <em>Like a Tree, Walking <\/em>(Carcanet Press, 2021), <em>Happiness<\/em> (Intergraphia, 2022) and <em>Polkadot Wounds\u00a0<\/em>(Carcanet Press, 2024). <em>Author p<\/em><em>hoto \u00a9 Hayley Madden for The Poetry Society<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anthony V. Capildeo is a Trinidadian British writer whose publications include Measures of Expatriation (Carcanet Press, 2016), Simple Complex Shapes (Shearsman Books, 2015) and Utter (Peepal Tree Press, 2013). They hold a DPhil in Old Norse and are interested in multilingualism, creative reworkings, and the boundaries between the human and the natural. Their collaborative work [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":8093,"parent":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-972","person","type-person","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person\/972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/person"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}