Collection: Vuyelwa Carlin

Vuyelwa Carlin was born in South Africa in 1949, brought up in Uganda, and has lived for many years now in Shropshire. Her poems have appeared in literary journals and anthologies in the UK and abroad. She has published three poetry collections to date and has won prizes in both the Cardiff and National Poetry Competitions. She is also a Hawthornden Fellow. For the past five years she as worked as a carer in an EMI (Elderly Mentally Infirm) unit. Vuyelwa Carlin reads 'Plaques and Tangles', her poem about Alzheimer's patients, from [url=http://www.inpressbooks.co.uk/the_solitary_vuyelwa_carlin_i020219.aspx]The Solitary[/url]: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmNqz_HSQcM[/youtube]