University of Bolton readings

Vahni Capildeo and Polly Clark
Vahni Capildeo, born in Trinidad, has lived in the UK since 1991. Completing a doctorate in Old Norse literature and holding a Research Fellowship at Girton College, she is a contributing advisor to many magazines. Her poetry includes: No Traveller Returns (2003), Person Animal Figure (2005), Undraining Sea (2009), Dark & Unaccustomed Words (2010). She also has poems in the anthologies The Oxford Book of Caribbean Verse Telling and Identity Parade (2009). She also has an interest in prose writing.

Polly Clark was born in 1968 in Toronto and brought up in Lancashire, Cumbria and the Borders of Scotland. She has published three collections of poetry with Bloodaxe Books: Kiss (2000) a Poetry Book Society Recommendation; Take Me With You (2005), a Poetry Book Society Choice and shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize and Farewell My Lovely (2009). She has published short stories in Comma Press’s Hyphen and Ellipsis series

Price: £4.00

Time: 7:30pm