Anthony Vahni Capildeo on Kimberly Campanello's An Interesting Detail
In Conversation with Michael Kelleher for the Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast
The Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast features a series of conversations with past and present Windham-Campbell Prize winners about their favorite books and plays. Hosted by Michael Kelleher.
Mike talks with 2025 Windham Campbell Prize for Poetry recipient Anthony Vahni Capildeo about their abiding admiration for Kimberly Campanello’s An Interesting Detail — and also buildings made of skulls.
For a full episode transcript, click here.
Anthony Vahni Capildeo was born in Port of Spain, Trinidad, and lives in the UK. One finds a sacred wonder and delight in language in every poem in each of their nine collections and eight chapbooks. Capildeo studied Old Norse and translation while earning their DPhil at Oxford University. The recipient of many awards including Forward Prize for Best Collection for Measures of Expatriation (2016) and the Judith E. Wilson Poetry Fellowship (2014), Capildeo is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. They are currently a professor and writer-in-residence at the University of York.
The Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast is a program of The Windham-Campbell Prizes, which are administered by Yale University Library’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast
The Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast features a series of conversations with past and present winners of the Windham-Campbell Prizes about books and plays that they love, hosted by prize director Michael Kelleher. The Windham-Campbell Prizes are administered by Yale University Library’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. The podcast is a co-production between The Windham-Campbell Prizes and Literary Hub. Hosted by Michael Kelleher. Production & Engineering by Drew Broussard. Music by Dani Lencioni.
