Jonathan Cape poet Ocean Vuong has won the 2017 T. S. Eliot prize for his debut poetry collection, Night Sky With Exit Wounds.
Ocean was presented with a cheque for £25,000 at a ceremony at the Wallace Collection in central London yesterday evening. This builds on an already exciting year for Ocean, who won the Forward Prize for Best First Collection last year. Speaking about Vuong's collection, Chair of Judges Bill Herbert said: 'It is a compellingly assured debut, the definitive arrival of a significant voice.'