Vahni Capildeo's Odyssey Calling is a completely stunning work of velocity, vision and hospitality. These poems make you feel at home, except what is 'home'? They do not deal in public legitimacy: they do not speak properly, nor ask to be listened to properly. You seem a stranger to these poems, so probably they will treat you like a trickster god.

Trinidadian-British poet Vahni Capildeo was born in Port of Spain, Trinidad. They earned a PhD at Oxford University, where they were a Rhodes Scholar studying translation theory and Old Norse. Their collection Venus as Bear was the Poetry Book Society Summer Choice 2018, and Measures of Expatriation was awarded the Forward Best Collection Prize 2016.

Bristol: Sad Press, 2020. 44 pages. Paperback.