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From No Traveller Returns
biographical note and publications
Vahni Capildeo was born in 1973 and came to England from Trinidad as
a student in 1991. She was very happy to discover the freedoms and disciplines
of Anglo-Saxon poetry at Oxford, which allowed to her to think about metre
and rhythm in ways that did not tie down scansion to contemporary standard
English. She also found a group of friends, notably including the Scotland-based
playwright Sarah Colvin and the mediaeval musicologist Emma Dillon, who
made her aware of the issues and possibilities of feminism, women's writing,
and the singing/speaking voice.
She eventually completed a Ph.D. in Old Norse, lived in a number of
temporary locations including Munich and rural Sussex, and married David
Groiser, a German-speaking Yorkshireman for whom she likes to bake bread.
Her first book, No Traveller Returns (Salt Publishing, 2003),
tells the story of the early part of this transition in a series of poems
and prose poems divided into sections like chapters based on time, voice
or place.
Vahni Capildeo's poems have appeared in several magazines, including Fire
(forthcoming), First Time, Poetry Wales, Pulsar,
Rain Dog, Southfields, Terrible Work, The
Oxford Magazine, and Weyfarers. She enjoys readings, and
has read at the Cambridge Conference of Contemporary Poetry, subvoicive
poetry (London), Girton College
(Cambridge), and Marcus Moore and Sara-Jane Arbury's Poetry Slams. She
has collaborated on pub performances with the young Norwegian singer/songwriter
Sverre Gronlie, as well as doing video and audio work for Brian Catling,
and appearing on Resonance Radio (London 104.4 fm).
She has done temporary work at the Oxford English Dictionary and currently
holds a Research Fellowship in the Arts at Girton College, Cambridge.
She intends to write full-time as of October 2004. She is working on a
second
book of poems and a book of short stories.
contact
svpc2@cam.ac.uk
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