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Vahni Capildeo is a British Trinidadian writer of poetry and prose. Recent work also appears in New Poetries VI (Carcanet, 2015).
"Vahni Capildeo's latest collection Simple Complex Shapes is uncharacteristically spare, the shortest of the poems just four words long. There are none of the expansive and involved pieces typical of her other collections: no prose poems and no long lyrics. Instead we have a sequence of miniatures, fragments even, some of the poems creating a visual shape on the page."- SImon Collings, Stride magazine
About the author
Trinidadian-British poet Vahni Capildeo is the daughter of poet Devendranath Capildeo. Born in Port of Spain, Trinidad, she earned a PhD at Oxford University, where she was a Rhodes Scholar studying translation theory and Old Norse. She completed a research fellowship at Girton College, Cambridge University. She has served as a contributing editor for the Caribbean Review of Books and as an editorial assistant and a researcher for the Oxford English Dictionary. She has lived in the United Kingdom since 1991.
