Anthony Capildeo wins Saltire Society Award
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Posted on Wednesday 3 December 2025
Warm congratulations to Anthony Capildeo, who has won the Saltire Society Award for Poetry Book of the Year for 'Polkadot Wounds' (Carcanet, 2024).
The Saltires are Scotland’s National Book Awards, with prizes awarded for the winners of Scotland’s Fiction, Non-Fiction, Poetry and Research Books of the Year 2025, and the winners of Scotland’s Fiction, Non-Fiction and Poetry Debuts of the Year 2025.
Read more about Polkadot Wounds here.
You can see the full list of awardees here.