{"product_id":"9781780377391","title":"Avidya","description":"Author: Vidyan Ravinthiran\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781780377391\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Bloodaxe\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 15 Oct 2025\u003cbr\u003ePages: 80 \u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eJoint Winner of the Forward Prize for Best Collection 2025\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\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\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\u003cp\u003eAvidya 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","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47924840038558,"sku":"ING-9781780377391","price":23.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781780377391.jpg?v=1782953679","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781780377391","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}