Trinida­di­an po­et Vah­ni Capildeo has won the 2016 For­ward prize for best po­et­ry col­lec­tion, mak­ing it three years in a row that a Caribbean po­et has won one of the most pres­ti­gious po­et­ry awards in the UK and Ire­land, says the Guardian UK.

A prize for first col­lec­tion was al­so award­ed to a Caribbean writer, Tiphanie Yanique, who was born in the Vir­gin Is­lands.

Capildeo's col­lec­tion, Mea­sures of Ex­pa­tri­a­tion, ex­plores ideas of be­long­ing and home. Her award fol­lows two Ja­maican-born po­ets, Kei Miller and Clau­dia Rank­ine, who took the main prize re­spec­tive­ly in 2014 and 2015.

Capildeo re­ceived the �15,000 prize at a cer­e­mo­ny at the Roy­al Fes­ti­val Hall in Lon­don on Tues­day night. A pro­fes­sor at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Glas­gow, Capildeo pre­vi­ous­ly worked as an OED lex­i­cog­ra­ph­er and has an Ox­ford DPhil in Old Norse. She comes from a well-known Trinida­di­an fam­i­ly of politi­cians and writ­ers, in­clud­ing her dis­tant cousin VS Naipaul.