Author(s): Capildeo, Anthony Vahni,
Binding: Paperback,
Date of Publication: 25/07/2024,
Pagination: 100 pages,
Series: N/A,
Imprint: Carcanet Press Ltd,
Published By: CARCANET PRESS LTD ,
Book Classification: Of specific Gay & Lesbian interest,
Dimensions: 215 x 134 x 9
ISBN13/EAN/SKU: 9781800174252
Binding: Paperback,
Date of Publication: 25/07/2024,
Pagination: 100 pages,
Series: N/A,
Imprint: Carcanet Press Ltd,
Published By: CARCANET PRESS LTD ,
Book Classification: Of specific Gay & Lesbian interest,
Dimensions: 215 x 134 x 9
ISBN13/EAN/SKU: 9781800174252
Polkadot Wounds is a delight, wrestling with life in our restless times. Capildeo entices us to enter conversations with others (dead and living), amongst glimpsing reflections of encounters. Landscapes become 'landskips', playing on traditions of travel and nature writing, childlike spontaneity and movement across gaps. Dante's Divine Comedy frames untimely deaths and breakthroughs of joy, during the pandemic and in queer and far-flung communities. The title of the book is inspired by the stones of the ruined Norman castle in Launceston, Cornwall, and the local martyr, St Cuthbert Mayne, where Capildeo was writer-in-residence with the Charles Causley Trust.