Million-petalled Flower of Being Here
Million-petalled Flower of Being Here Vidyan Ravinthiran's second collection is a book of sonnets for his wife. Many describe life in the North East for a mixed-race couple, considering both the…
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Million-petalled Flower of Being Here
Vidyan Ravinthiran's second collection is a book of sonnets for his wife. Many describe life in the North East for a mixed-race couple, considering both the redemptive force of love and the cultural origins of our discontent. These are love poems that turn analytical, consider the world, and in which the pronoun 'we' aspires to stand for a larger community, including (if you like) readers themselves.
Worrying at the link between society and our private lives, they scorn a politics which would put us all in separate boxes. Brexit; racist and sexist abuse; class; our work-life balance, and our relationship with institutions (be it our employer, or the NHS); taboos surrounding mental health; civil war in Sri Lanka; media representation of minorities; immigrant anxieties: these poems look inward, but also outward. Love, and imagination, may not conquer all, but as recent shocks suggest,
Being Right Here
Being Aware of Being Aware
Way of Being
Anatomy of Being
Discovery of Being
Reality Of Being
Velocity of Being
Science of Being Well
Importance of Being Urnest
Importance of Being Earnest
Sound of Being Human