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Out of Sri Lanka
Tamil, Sinhala and English poetry from Sri Lanka and its diasporas
Av Vidyan Ravinthiran, Vidyan Ravinthiran m. fl.
Häftad, 2023
185 kr
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Sri 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 …
Out of Sri Lanka
Tamil, Sinhala and English poetry from Sri Lanka and its diasporas
Av Shash Trevett, Seni Seneviratne m. fl.
E-bok, 2023
358 kr
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This first ever anthology of Sri Lankan and diasporic poetry features over a hundred poets writing in English, or translated from Tamil and Sinhala. It brings to light a long-neglected national literature, and reshapes our understanding of migrational poetics and the poetics of atrocity. In this …
Wild Cinnamon and Winter Skin
Häftad, 2007
113 kr
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A debut collection of poems on the themes of migration, family, love and loss. This work reflects the poet's personal journey as a woman of Sri Lankan and English heritage.
Unknown Soldier
Häftad, 2019
139 kr
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The stimulus for these poems is a collection of photographs taken of the poet’s father, originally from colonial Sri Lanka, who was serving as a radio operator in an otherwise all white platoon in the 1939-45 desert war in North Africa. As for so many who came back from war to start or resume a …
Go-Away Bird
Häftad, 2023
139 kr
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In her fourth collection, Seni Seneviratne extends her reputation as a fine poet whose incisive social and political concerns are matched by her meticulous care with the shape of each poem and the architecture of her collections, where individual poems are enriched by their place in the whole and …
Colonial Countryside: Creative and Historical Responses
Creative and Historical Responses
Av Mahsuda Snaith, Peter Kalu m. fl.
Häftad, 2024
274 kr
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Colonial Countryside is a book of commissioned poems and short stories produced by ten global majority writers featuring National Trust houses with significant colonial histories. This includes properties whose owners engaged in the slavery business, in colonial administration or who were involved …
Heart of It
Häftad, 2012
126 kr
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Personal heartbreak and public political trauma collide in this moving poetry compilation. While the poems struggle with sadness, a sense of acceptance transcends the pain as the poet explores a mixed heritage background. Sudden twists of anger and tragedy are tempered only by the poet's …
