{"product_id":"avidya-vidyan-ravinthiran-paperback","title":"Avidya -- Vidyan Ravinthiran, Paperback","description":"\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003ci\u003eJoint Winner of the Forward Prize for Best Collection 2025 \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\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\u003c\/strong\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. It is also a book about the forms of both strength and fear that parents pass on to their children.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Vidyan Ravinthiran\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e Bloodaxe Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublished:\u003c\/strong\u003e 7\/8\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 72\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/strong\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWeight:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.3 lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSize:\u003c\/strong\u003e 8.9\" H x 6\" L x 0.3\" W\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9781780377391\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kotton Kandy Skies","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53159649673515,"sku":"9781780377391","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0962\/2978\/5899\/files\/9781780377391.jpg?v=1775539469","url":"https:\/\/2trc11-eq.myshopify.com\/products\/avidya-vidyan-ravinthiran-paperback","provider":"Kotton Kandy Skies","version":"1.0","type":"link"}