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Tityrus is both an elegy to a natural world that has long been overindustrialised

and then taken up by the next instrument

abstract and alive

Polkadot Wounds poetry English scholarshipAnthony Vahni Capildeo Polkadot Wounds is a delight, wrestling with life in our restless times. Capildeo entices us to enter conversations with others (dead and living), amongst glimpsing reflections of encounters. Landscapes become 'landskips', playing on traditions of travel and nature writing, childlike spontaneity and movement across gaps. Dante's Divine Comedy frames untimely deaths and breakthroughs of joy, during the pandemic and in queer and