Carolyn Forché, Vahni Capildeo and Matthew Dickman.: Northern Stage

Born in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, Vahni Capildeo has lived in the UK since 1991, where she has published four poetry collections including Undraining Sea (2009), Dark & Unaccustomed Words (2012),  Utter (2013) and Measures of Expatriation (2016), which is both a Poetry Book Society Choice and shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize 2016.  A long-time contributing editor to the Caribbean Review of Books, she is also contributing advisor to Black Box Manifold. Matthew Dickman is the author of All-American Poem (2008), 50 American Plays (co-written with his twin brother Michael Dickman, 2012), and Mayakovskys Revolver (2012). He is the recipient of The Honickman First Book Prize, The May Sarton Award from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Kate Tufts Award from Claremont College, and the 2009 Oregon Book Award from Literary Arts of Oregon. He is a 2015 Guggenheim recipient and the Poetry Editor of Tin House Magazine. Carolyn Forché is the author of four books of poetry, most recently Blue Hour (Bloodaxe, 2003). She is the recipient of honours and awards including the Los Angeles Times Book Award, fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Lannan Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Academy of American Poets Fellowship, given for distinguished poetic achievement. Her translations include Mahmoud Darwishs Unfortunately, It Was Paradise: Selected Poems with Munir Akash (2003), Claribel Alegrias Flowers from the Volcano (1983), and Robert Desnoss Selected Poetry, with William Kulik (1991). Known for her work as a Human Rights activist, she is also the editor of Against Forgetting: Twentieth-Century Poetry of Witness (1993) and the coeditor of Poetry of Witness: The Tradition in English (2014). She is Professor of English at Georgetown University and Visiting Professor at Newcastle University. Day / Weekend Pass Event