
Like a Tree, Walking
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The Poetry Book Society Winter Choice 2021
Vahni Capildeo's Like a Tree, Walking is a fresh departure, even for this famously innovative poet. Taking its title from a story of sight miraculously regained, this book draws on Capildeo's interest in ecopoetics and silence. Many pieces originate in specific places, from nocturnes and lullabies in hilly Port of Spain to 'stillness exercises' recording microenvironments - emotional and aural - around English trees. These journeys offer a configuration of the political that makes a space for new kinds of address, declaration and relation.
Capildeo takes guidance from vernacular traditions of sensitivity ranging from Thomas A Clark and Iain Crichton Smith to the participants in a Leeds libraries project on the Windrush. Like a Tree, Walking is finally a book defined by how it writes love.
Reviews / Votes
'A wonderful new collection from Capildeo, exploring through their own lens not just the innate fragmentary prism of nature but a wider context of realising and placing the self within.'?Shehzar Doja, Gutter Magazine 'The poems here are just as striking as their collection's cover: Like a Tree, Walking is both playful and challenging...Capildeo's linguistic wit is very much to the fore from the start...[a] highly imaginative and literary collection.'
Sarah Law, Stride Magazine 'Vahni Capildeo has always been a remarkable and singular poet, and Like a Tree, Walking is yet another triumph of their warm wit, direct vision, and almost spiritual connection to the page....The collection is welcoming, disarming, and - as its blurb commands - 'defined by how it writes about love.' The poetry within is to be celebrated, read, and reread by poets and not-poets alike.'
Beth Cochrane, The Skinny 'Vahni Capildeo is an astonishingly prolific and inventive poet, and Like a Tree, Walking, showcases the full range of their imagination...Capildeo's touch is light, their meaning never forced, yet even their longer poems maintain a quick pace and a clear sense of rhythm...Much of the collection is imbued with this spirit of natural connection and wonder, and Capildeo's ability to read nature, and to identify its presence in the midst of human society, makes their latest collection a thought-provoking read.'
Maggie Wang, Poetry School 'I would follow Vahni Capildeo's poetry to the ends of the Earth, I just think that they're amazing...I love this book very much.'
?Jen Campbell 'Like A Tree, Walking is a warm and deeply wise collection, finding intimacy and strength in the most surprising places, and, like tree roots sharing nutrients and warnings underground, sustaining them in the toughest situations. Displaying an imaginative syntactical approach and a masterful application of form, Capildeo upholds their place as an essential poet of our time; a richly singular voice, tuning our focus to the life-sustaining riches of our world.'
Isabelle Baafi, The Poetry Review
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- Intro
- Title Page
- Contents
- Epigraph
- Dedication
- when i called
- In Praise of Birds
- Plague Poems
- Towards an Unwalking
- like a tree, walking
- Walk #2
- Sweetheart! Is So You Stop? / Ceci n'est pas du calypso
- Walk #3
- How Silence Surrounds
- Walk #5
- Stylish Deer
- Walk #6
- Cité de Lumière / Light Site
- Walk #7
- Erasure as Shinethrough / L'Amour a Besoin de Réalité
- Nocturne #1
- On the Way Somewhere
- Nocturne #5
- Reader, I Turn Men into Deer
- Nocturne #6
- Dark Times My Love
- Nocturne #7
- Holy Island
- Lullaby #1
- Erasure as Drift / Kinde Yernings
- Lullaby #2
- Love in the Time of New Media
- Lullaby #4
- If There Is an Afterwards
- Lullaby #7
- Revolution Time
- no metaphor
- After an Unspeaking
- Windrush Reflections
- In Praise of Trees
- cause breath to enter
- For Whom the Moon
- Violent Triage
- Odyssey Response
- Acknowledgements
- About the Author
- Also by Vahni Capildeo from Carcanet
- Copyright
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