Simple Complex Shapes

<p>Vahni Capildeo is a British Trinidadian writer of poetry and prose. Recent work also appears in <em>New Poetries VI</em> (Carcanet 2015).</p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Vahni Capildeo's latest collection </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Simple Complex Shapes</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> 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 </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Stride</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> magazine</span></p><p><br></p>