'Like a Tree, Walking' is Poetry Book Society’s Winter Choice

Professor Vahni Capildeo’s upcoming poetry collection, Like a Tree, Walking, has been selected by the Poetry Book Society as its Winter Choice for 2021. 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 space for new kinds of address, declaration and relation.