Vidyan Ravinthiran

Joint Winner of the Forward Prize for Best Collection 2025 The poems in this collection emerged from journeys of great personal significance, and out of a migrant sensibility tied to three different countries: Sri Lanka, the UK, and the USA. Sensuous, droll, yearning, they consider otherwise forgotten (ignored, repressed, erased) events. In 2017, Vidyan Ravinthiran travelled to the north of...

Identifying ourselves, others, writers, with their opinions—and taking the form of the opinion as the epitome of political engagement—we assert a picture of the self that ought to be scrutinised. Mass print generated, along with the railways, telegraph, information-relays national and global, as well as the development of specialised forms of technological, scientific, economic, and medical knowledge, a sea of...

Identifying ourselves, others, and writers with their opinions—and taking the form of the opinion as the epitome of political engagement—we assert a picture of the self that ought to be scrutinised. Mass print generated, along with the railways, telegraph, information-relays national and global, as well as the development of specialised forms of technological, scientific, economic, and medical knowledge, a sea...