Out of Sri Lanka
Poetry Book Society Special Commendation Summer 2023 Emma Lee rich in affective imagery

rich in affective imagery

We are taken from delivery room

but he is also a visionary in the sense that his poems sharpen vision of the environment and the crucial minutiae of the natural world we partly inhabit

It is uncertain where we are or when

Out of Sri Lanka<br><b>Poetry Book Society Special Commendation Summer 2023</b> Emma Lee rich in affective imagerySri Lanka has thrilled the foreign imagination as a land of infinite possibility. Portuguese, Dutch and British colonisers envisioned an island of gems and pearls, a stopping point on the Silk Road; tourists today are sold a vision of golden beaches and swaying palm trees, delicious food and smiling locals. This favours the south of the island over the north rebuilt piecemeal after the end of the civil war in 2009, and erases a history of war crimes,