Out of Sri Lanka
Ravinthiran, Vidyan / Seneviratne, Seni / Trevett, Shash
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 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 ...