Blue Pieta Author

Bhanu Kapil is an Extraordinary Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge. A former Judith E. Wilson Poetry Fellow of the University of Cambridge, she is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. She has been awarded a Windham-Campbell Prize from Yale University and a Cholomondeley Award from the Society of Authors, both for poetry. Her most recent book of poetry, How To Wash A Heart (Pavillion Poetry) won the TS Eliot Prize. Blue Pieta is a multidisciplinary artist, dramaturg, director and performer. They were dramaturg for Akram Khan Company’s production Thikra: Night of Remembering (2025) and musical operetta Nine Songs directed by Farooq Chaudhry OBE with musical direction by Jocelyn Pook. Their art has been featured in exhibition programming by Serpentine Galleries, Courtauld Gallery, Britten Pears Arts, and staged at The Place, Battersea Arts Centre and Royal Court Theatre.