
Online Double Bill: Between the Historical and the Imaginary
Vidyan Ravinthiran’s third collection Avidya, shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Collection, emerged from journeys of great personal significance, and out of a migrant sensibility tied to three different countries. Sensuous, droll, yearning, these poems remember events that have otherwise been erased. Arundhathi Subramaniam’s poems in The Gallery of Upside Down Women also map a world trying to find its axis in a season of change. Wandering through these pages though are extraordinary women, who vault nimbly over borders, walk naked, walk aslant.
Join these two poets online as they read from and discuss their luminous latest collections, the forgotten histories they dissect and the new worlds they point towards.
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