{"title":"Vidyan Ravinthiran","description":"\u003cp\u003eVidyan Ravinthiran crafts thoughtful explorations of \u003cem\u003eArts \u0026amp; Culture\u003c\/em\u003e, blending poetic expression with incisive opinion. Readers can expect works that challenge perceptions and invite contemplation on diverse cultural landscapes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom reflective poetry to provocative essays, Ravinthiran’s writing offers a nuanced perspective that resonates with those drawn to both artistic creativity and cultural discourse. His books invite a deeper appreciation of the subtle intersections between art, identity, and society.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"avidya-by-vidyan-ravinthiran-9781780377391","title":"Avidya","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eJoint Winner of the Forward Prize for Best Collection 2025\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn 2017, Vidyan Ravinthiran travelled to the north of Sri Lanka where his parents grew up—it finally felt safe—visiting war-torn Tamil areas overwritten by a tourist focus on the sun-spoiled South. In 2020, he, his wife, and their one-year-old moved from Britain to the United States, months before the pandemic hit and the travel ban separated them for almost two years from family overseas.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAvidya\u003c\/em\u003e is a political and a spiritual collection, whose multiple poetic forms, open and closed, are shaped by myth and philosophy, and by Sri Lankan as well as global crises. 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Poetry helps us understand this situation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAppearing in verse, claims about reality have been characterised, or have self-characterised, as virtual. As such, Romantic and post-Romantic poetry makes perceptible other ways in which, in other precincts, utterance becomes virtualised. Sometimes, by the psychological turbulences of the citizen-as-creature, appropriating world events to the need to self-assert; sometimes, as a result of affective matrices that challenge the idea that we are the authors of our own opinions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47934186782956,"sku":"9781009549066","price":79.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781009549066-poetry-and-opinion.jpg?v=1783902553"},{"product_id":"poetry-and-opinion-by-vidyan-ravinthiran-9781009549059","title":"Poetry and Opinion","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIdentifying 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 of discourse belying any vision of a cogent public sphere: disinformation is not a purely 21st-century, internet phenomenon.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePoetry and Opinion\u003c\/em\u003e helps us understand this situation. Appearing in verse, claims about reality have been characterised, or have self-characterised, as virtual. As such, Romantic and post-Romantic poetry makes perceptible other ways in which, in other precincts, utterance becomes virtualised. 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