In Conversation with Anthony V. Capildeo

Anthony V. Capildeo

Colour head and shoulders photo of Anthony V. Capildeo
Sara Parvis

Anthony V. Capildeo FRSL is a Trinidadian Scottish writer of poetry and non-fiction. Capildeo is Writer in Residence and Professor at the University of York. Their interests include silence, plurilingualism, place, memory, faith, and traditional masquerade. Their work has been recognized with awards including the Forward Poetry Prize for Best Collection for ‘Measures of Expatriation’ (2016) and the Cholmondeley Award (Society of Authors). Capildeo's ninth full-length book, ‘Polkadot Wounds’ (Carcanet, 2024), had its in-person launch at the ALT book fringe in Edinburgh, in solidarity with calls for book workers to organize for a genocide-free, fossil fuel-free book industry. 

Chair: Sara Parvis

Sara Parvis
Sara Parvis

Sara's research interests lie within the Patristic period, concerning the development of orthodoxy and the construction of heresy, sources of authority in the Church, the place of scriptural exegesis in Patristic thought, and the search for some of the hidden voices of early Christianity, both doctrinal and sociological. She studied at the University of Oxford and then at the University of Edinburgh, where she did her doctorate, and is the author of ‘Marcellus of Ancyra and the Lost Years of the Arian Controversy 325-345'.