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This is an important literary debut: the sound of a new, unique, captivating voice. The journey Capildeo describes with such ferocity and such an ebullient, unexpected sense of fun is also emotional, and she entices the reader into travelling with her. Undiscovered countries are here spread out before us, ready for exploration.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
- The Mask in the Bone
- Amulet
- Education
- White as Jasmine
- In Cunaripo
- For Dhumavati: Her Work
- A Sense of Vanishing
- Catch of the Day
- i. Right There Outside
- ii. Unruffled Surface
- iii. Once Joined to the mainland
- iv. Stop: Warning: Danger: Valentine
- Inscription (Windward Isles)
- Port-of-Spain
- The Stars Looked Different There
- Nothing Poem
- Time is an Unkind Dancer
- Climacteric
- Turning Moment
- White Lilac Time
- Miss Havisham Will Not Burn
- Light and Dark
- Obsessive Talk
- Twist
- The Monster Scrapbook
- Monster Postures
- The Monstrous Task
- Of the Character of Monsters
- Desdemona Resuscitated
- Monster Deception
- Seeing Without Looking
- In the Loft
- Frameless by Choice
- And Again
- In the Loft
- Monster Pastimes
- I Hear the Monsters Singing
- Charm
- Monster Flattery
- Lux Æterna Et Perpetua
- Lactic Song
- Tiredness Poem
- Stalkers' Top Ten
- Silence Poem
- The Mud Flats
- Lux Æterna Et Perpetua
- Shape of a Vase
- At the Butterfly
- Tenses
- Monster Consciousness
- Deep Colours Bleed
- Monster Consciousness
- In the Loft
- Monster Ways
- A Day Outside
- Monster Hunting
- The Religion of Love
- Monster Hunting
- Remove Packaging Before Use
- Letter from a Monster to a monster in Scotland
- What is You Guy Really Like?
- Dry Clean Only
- Monster Time
- Monster Vision
- King Vertigo and Queen Momentum
- King Vertigo
- Commuter Installation
- Wisdom in Character
- Gone to Pieces
- King Vertigo
- Queen Momentum
- Summoning Up the Spirit
- Felling Trees
- Doppelgänger
- Lilies
- Fleshed Perspective
- No Traveller Returns
- A Reason to Light More Fires
- No Traveller Returns
- The Bleeding Obvious
- Antigone
- St. Munditia
- Nattaraj
Über den Autor / die Autorin
Vahni Capildeo was born in 1973, in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad. She came to England in 1991. This is her first book.
