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Andrew McMillan, said, “Our shortlist celebrated the ways in which poetry is responding to profound change, and the stylistic freedom that today’s poets have claimed. From this impressive field, we unanimously chose Bhanu Kapil’s How to Wash a Heart as our winner. It is a radical and arresting collection that recalibrates what it’s possible for poetry to achieve.”
Bhanu Kapil was born in England to Indian parents, and she grew up in a South Asian, working-class community in London. She lives between the UK and the US, where she spent 21 years at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado. She is the author of six books of poetry/prose:
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It might be the award most poets only dream of winning, but this year it s British-Indian writer Bhanu Kapil s turn to bag the top accolade in the TS Eliot Prize for poetry.
Known as the most valuable award for British poetry, Kapil won for her collection of poems called
How to Wash a Heart, in which she explores the dynamics between an immigrant and her white, middle-class host.
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