Bloodaxe Books | Launch of Out of Sri Lanka: GemArts Masala Festival / Newcastle Centre for the Literary Arts 2023 @BloodaxeBooks | Uploaded August 2023 | Updated October 2024, 2 hours ago.
Out of Sri Lanka anthology editors Vidyan Ravinthiran, Seni Seneviratne and Shash Trevett joined NCLA Director Preti Teneja to discuss this new anthology of Tamil, Sinhala and English poetry from Sri Lanka and its diasporas, the first book of its kind. The event featured an exclusive video of contributors to the anthology reading their poems.

Out of Sri Lanka 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. 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.

Out of Sri Lanka on the Bloodaxe website: bloodaxebooks.com/ecs/product/out-of-sri-lanka-1327