Vivimarie Vanderpoorten
'Why do we submit? / to fracturing?': A poetry anthology of South Asian women's traumas
An excerpt from 'Sing, Slivered Tongue: An Anthology of South Asian Women's Poetry of Trauma in English', edited by Lopamudra Basu and Feroza Jussawalla.
Lopamudra Basu
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Feroza Jussawalla
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Vivimarie Vanderpoorten
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Soniah Kamal
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'War? In this land? / Who told you?': There's a new anthology of Sri Lankan poetry in translation
'Out of Sri Lanka: Tamil, Sinhala and English Poetry from Sri Lanka and its Diasporas,' edited by Vidyan Ravinthiran, Seni Seneviratne, and Shash Trevett.
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