Avidya by Vidyan Ravinthiran #literature a bowl-Isabel' suspicions spiral out

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They blend reflections of travels through fen

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The complex scent of geranium rises to the challenge

Avidya by Vidyan Ravinthiran #literature a bowl-Isabel' suspicions spiral outThese poems emerged from journeys of great personal significance, and out of a migrant sensibility tied to three different countries. Sensuous, droll, yearning, they consider otherwise forgotten (ignored, repressed, erased) events. In 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