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Out of Sri Lanka: Tamil, Sinhala and English poetry from Sri Lanka and its diasporas
Out of Sri Lanka: Tamil, Sinhala and English poetry from Sri Lanka and its diasporas
Out of Sri Lanka: Tamil, Sinhala and English poetry from Sri Lanka and its diasporas
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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 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.

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 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, Out of Sri Lanka redresses this imbalance. 

LanguageEnglish
Release dateJun 22, 2023
ISBN9781780376745
Out of Sri Lanka: Tamil, Sinhala and English poetry from Sri Lanka and its diasporas

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