Neetha Kunaratnam was awarded the Geoffrey Dearmer Prize for 2007 (adjudicated by Alan Brownjohn) by Poetry Review. He appears in Off the Shelf (2016), published by Picador UK and edited by Carol Ann Duffy. His first collection, Just Because, was published by Smokestack Books in December 2018, and was highly commended in the Forward Prizes in 2019. His second collection, Cauc/asian (Blue Diode), will be published in May this year.