Vahni Capildeo – Poor Rude Lines: poetry reviews & recommendations by John Field

Vahni Capildeo’s Measures of Expatriation

This review was commissioned for the T.S. Eliot Prize newsletter and is reprinted with kind permission. Vahni Capildeo’s Forward Prize winning Measures of Expatriation opens with an Old English dedication, ‘Eadig bið se þe eaþmod leofaþ’ (Blessed is he who lives humbly), taken from the cold, salty exploration of isolation, ‘The Seafarer’, a poem which helpsContinue reading “Vahni Capildeo’s Measures of Expatriation”

The 2016 T.S. Eliot Prize

For various reasons, 2016 was not much of a year for reading, or reviewing poetry. So, the experience of reviewing the collections shortlisted for the 2016 T.S. Eliot prize was an intense one: a book a week from October to December. Rachael Boast’s Void Studies was the first up and this was a poetry collectionContinue reading “The 2016 T.S. Eliot Prize”