Lakdhas Wikkramasinha

This is a bold poetry collection by a major Sri Lankan anglophone poet. It presents a fearless, politically engaged voice that grapples with empire, memory, and the search for cultural voice. Suitable for readers of literary poetry and postcolonial literature, it carries an intense, musical, and thought-provoking tone. Across English and Sinhala, the volume offers a comprehensive selection of poems drawn from original manuscripts, many never reprinted before. The bilingual edition includes the original Sinhala texts alongside thoughtful English translations, inviting readers to hear the same lines in two linguistic voices and to trace how language shapes memory, power, and vision. Readers experience a modernist lyric cadence—short, image-packed lines with rhythmic sharpness—shaped by influences from Sanskrit and Sinhalese traditions and global modernist figures. The collection spans the colonial era, its aftermath, and the postcolonial present, offering a rare window into an underrepresented anglophone tradition. - Comprehensive selection of English-language poetry drawn from original manuscripts, many previously unavailable in print. - Sinhala poetry represented with English translations; original Sinhala texts included in parallel. - Side-by-side bilingual presentation invites close reading and cross-language discovery. - Lyrical, rhythmically charged writing with imagistic c