Event overview
A poetry reading with Malika Booker and Vahni Capildeo
Malika Booker is a British poet and multi-disciplinary artist of Guyanese and Grenadian Parentage. In 2001 she and Roger Robinson co-founded the writer’s collective - Malika’s Poetry Kitchen. Breadfruit (pamphlet) (flippedeye, 2007), was recommended by the Poetry Society and her poetry collection Pepper Seed (Peepal Tree Press, 2013) was longlisted for the OCM Bocas prize and shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney Centre prize for first full collection (2014). She is published with the poets Sharon Olds and Warsan Shire in The Penguin Modern Poet Series 3: Your Family: Your Body (2017). Booker has been the recipient of residencies from Millay Colony, Cove Park, The India International Centre and Kocevje through The Centre for Slovenian Literature. She is a Fellow of both The Complete Works and Cave Canem, was inaugural Poet in Residence at the Royal Shakespeare Company, and chaired the judging panel for The Forward Prize in 2016. Her poem Nine nights was shortlisted on the Forward Prize for Best Single poem in 2017. She has an MA in Creative and Life Writing from Goldsmiths University, was the Douglas Caster Cultural Fellow in Creative Writing at University of Leeds and is now an LHRI Fellow at that same university.
Vahni Capildeo’s poetry, including Measures of Expatriation (Forward Best Collection Prize 2016), like her non-fiction, explores the human and the natural; museum material and emotional life. She has worked in academia, in culture for development (Commonwealth Writers) and at the Oxford English Dictionary; volunteered with Oxford Rape Crisis, and Oxfam Head Office. Capildeo held the Judith E. Wilson Poetry Fellowship and the Harper-Wood Studentship at Cambridge, creating interdisciplinary performances and travelling in search of cocoa growers in Trinidad, lambs in Ireland, stones in Scotland and gardens in Kenya. She is a Douglas Caster Cultural Fellow at the University of Leeds. Her second Carcanet collection, Venus as a Bear, will be published in April 2018.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 24 Jan 2018 | 5:00pm - 6:00pm |
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