Vidyan Ravinthiran and Karen Solie are the first joint winners of the Forward prize for best collection, a highly respected UK poetry award. Ravinthiran, a Sri Lankan Tamil now living in the US, won for his collection ‘Avidyā’, derived from personal journeys and a migrant sensibility tied to three countries. Solie, a Canadian poet, shared the award for ‘Wellwater’, a self-reflective dialogue with a culture in crisis and an endangered natural world. This is the first time in the prize’s history that the honor has been shared.