Masqueraders: Selected Essays

Trinidadian Scottish poet Anthony V. Capildeo’ s non-fiction dé but brings together a selection of brilliant essays, letters and columns from over a dozen years of the leading poetry journal PN Review. They amount to an art of reading, while exposing the knotted side of the tapestry of a writing life. These vignettes will take you stargazing, invite you onto the road with stilt walkers, pause on questions of touch and mourning, and delight in conversing with writers new and old.

Anthony V. Capildeo FRSL is a Trinidadian Scottish writer of poetry and non-fiction. Capildeo’ s work has been recognized with awards including the Windham-Campbell Prize, the OCM Bocas Prize for Poetry, the Saltire National Poetry Award, the Forward Poetry Prize for Best Collection, and the Cholmondeley Award. Capildeo is Professor and Writer in Residence at the University of York, an Honorary Student of Christ Church, Oxford, where they read for a DPhil in Old Norse and translation theory.