Forward prize winner Vahni Capildeo shortlisted for TS Eliot poetry award | Books | The Guardian

Measures of Expatriation, which explores identity and the alienation of the expatriate, is one of 10 collections in the running for the prize. It is up against collections from Alice Oswald, Ian Duhig and Denise Riley, all of which also appeared on the Forward shortlist. Oswald's Falling Awake examines mutability; Duhig's The Blind Roadmaker draws from both Sterne's Tristram Shandy and the life of the 18th-century polymath Blind Jack Metcalf; and Riley's Say Something Back revolves around her late son and includes her long poem about grieving and loss, A Part Song.