{"product_id":"out-of-sri-lanka-tamil-sinhala-and-english-poetry-from-sri-lanka-and-its-diasporas-paperback","title":"Out of Sri Lanka: Tamil, Sinhala and English Poetry from Sri Lanka and Its Diasporas - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eVidyan Ravinthiran\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eSeni Seneviratne\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eShash Trevett\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis first ever anthology of Sri Lankan and diasporic poetry features over a hundred poets writing in English, or translated from Tamil and Sinhala.\u003c\/b\u003e It brings to light a long-neglected national literature, and reshapes our understanding of migrational poetics and the poetics of atrocity. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this anthology, poets long out of print appear beside exciting new talents; works written in the country converse with poetry from the UK, the US, Canada and Australia. Poems in traditional and in open forms, concrete poems, spoken word poems, and experimental post-lyric hybrids of poetry and prose, appear with an introduction explaining Sri Lanka's history.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSri Lanka has thrilled the foreign imagination as a land of infinite possibility. Portuguese, Dutch and British colonisers envisioned an island of gems and pearls, a stopping-point on the Silk Road; tourists today are sold a vision of golden beaches and swaying palm trees, delicious food and smiling locals. This favours the south of the island over the north rebuilt piecemeal after the end of the civil war in 2009, and erases a history of war crimes, illicit assassination of activists and journalists, subjugation of minorities, and a legacy of governmental corruption that has now led the country into economic and social crisis. Through its broad range of poets, \u003ci\u003eOut of Sri Lanka\u003c\/i\u003e redresses this imbalance. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eVidyan Ravinthiran\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Leeds, UK, to Sri Lankan Tamils. His first book of poems, \u003ci\u003eGrun-tu-molani\u003c\/i\u003e (Bloodaxe, 2014), was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection, the Seamus Heaney Centre Poetry Prize and the Michael Murphy Memorial Prize. His second, \u003ci\u003eThe Million-petalled Flower of Being Here\u003c\/i\u003e (Bloodaxe, 2019) was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Collection, the T.S. Eliot Prize and Ledbury Munthe Poetry Prize for Second Collections. After posts at Cambridge, Durham and Birmingham, he now teaches at Harvard.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSeni Seneviratne\u003c\/b\u003e, a writer of English and Sri Lankan heritage published by Peepal Tree Press, with books including \u003ci\u003eWild Cinnamon and Winter Skin\u003c\/i\u003e (2007), \u003ci\u003eThe Heart of It\u003c\/i\u003e (2012), and \u003ci\u003eUnknown Soldier \u003c\/i\u003e(2019), which was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation, a National Poetry Day Choice and highly commended in the Forward Poetry Prizes 2020. She is currently working on an LGBTQ project with Sheffield Museums entitled \u003ci\u003eQueering the Archive\u003c\/i\u003e and completing her fourth collection to be published by Peepal Tree in 2023.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eShash Trevett \u003c\/b\u003eis a Tamil from Sri Lanka who came to the UK to escape the civil war. She is a poet and a translator of Tamil poetry into English. Her pamphlet \u003ci\u003eFrom a Borrowed Land\u003c\/i\u003e was published in 2021 by SmithDoorstop. Shash has been on judging panels for the PEN Translates awards and the London Book Fair, and was a Visible Communities Translator in Residence at the National Centre for Writing. Shash is a Ledbury Critic, reviewing for \u003ci\u003ePN Review \u003c\/i\u003eand the Poetry Book Society and is a Board Member of \u003ci\u003eModern Poetry in Translation\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 424\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.2 x 9.1 x 6.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 15, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51759163408672,"sku":"9781780376738","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/c6776965920a06666acc15c150a25e7e.webp?v=1780143970","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/out-of-sri-lanka-tamil-sinhala-and-english-poetry-from-sri-lanka-and-its-diasporas-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}