No Names have been Changed by Siriol Troup Vahni Capildeo ’ – Simon Barraclough

’ – Simon Barraclough

wild animals and flowers

and The Wound was inspired by his anger towards the destruction being wrought on the West Australian coastal bushland by the controversial proposed construction of the Roe 8 Highway Extension

as in ‘Y Bydd’

No Names have been Changed by Siriol Troup Vahni Capildeo ’ – Simon Barraclough"No Names Have Been Changed, Siriol Troups third collection, offers strong, strange visions. Her poems, assured and varied in technique, are equally at home in ancient cities or on todays derelict coasts. She is a shrewd observer of times and trends: the Afghan coat, the incense burner In her lines, Meissen plates are set aside by violence; knives flash through Venice. But her poems are also strong in sympathy, for the old lady requesting gin and