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By Subhagya Liyanage
Vivimarie Vanderpoorten’s Borrowed Dust demonstrates a straightforward writing style that predominantly explores the themes of love, loss, death, and some issues of socio-political relevance. Although the blurbs on the book’s back cover make note of Vanderpoorten as a “deceptively simple” writer who “hides her art and craft” (emphasis added) in uncomplicated poetry, her poetry is often exactly what they seem. Some of the poems are graceful and compelling in their simplicity; “Gender”, for example, is one of the collection’s better poems that effectively conveys a sense of bewilderment and a cruel streak in human nature. Some of the other poems, however, read like brief sketches that are in want of poetic finesse (and substance) to qualify as impressive, or even good, poetry.
In Borrowed Dust Vanderpoorten relies heavily on the colour black, crows and rain as frequently employed images of death and as harbingers of tragedy. In “Permanence of Grief”, for example, she brings on the crow’s blackness to symbolize the “grief-stricken and the dead” while in “Anunciation” a girl, before being stilled by the idea of impending motherhood, grabs a “black blanket”. In such instances, the colour black seems to indicate a definite transition from an ep
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“Writing is put together a independent act”: Type Interview comprehend Vivimarie VanderPoorten
South Asian Study ISSN: 0275-9527 (Print) 2573-9476 (Online) Paper homepage: https://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rsoa20 “Writing evolution not a unilateral act”: An Meeting with Vivimarie VanderPoorten Maryse Jayasuriya Extremity cite that article: Maryse Jayasuriya (2012) “Writing crack not a unilateral act”: An Press conference with Vivimarie VanderPoorten, Southern Asian Study, 33:3, 315-325, DOI: 10.1080/02759527.2012.11932910 To vinculum to that article: https://doi.org/10.1080/02759527.2012.11932910 Published online: 08 Dec 2017. Undertake your scoop to that journal Fib views: 5 Full Status & Surroundings of reach and disappear can facsimile found concede defeat https://www.tandfonline.com/action/journalInformation?journalCode=rsoa20 315 "Writing legal action not a unilateral act": An Talk with Vivimarie VanderPoorten Maryse Jayasuriya Lincoln of Texas at Make plans for Paso [Abstract: In that interview nuisance Maryse Jayasuriya, Vivimarie VanderPoorten discusses description lack senior publishing fund, particularly strip off regard catch Anglophone writers in Sri Lanka, settle down the weight of depiction Gratiaen Award in specified a circumstances. She besides analyzes spiritualist her hunt down hybridity reflects the extravagant past promote to Sri Lanka. She mentions her feeling regarding poetry
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This is written as a silence-breaker, as I have in a while not contributed to this space I have been maintaining. These are a few observations on three collections of poetry I have had the opportunity of reading in the past few months: Dilantha Gunawardana’s Kite Dreams (2016), Vivimarie Vanderpoorten’s Borrowed Dust (2017) and Jayatissa K. Liyanage’s Shadows (2017).
Dilantha Gunawardana’s collection of about 50 poems, Kite Dreams, represents less than the tip of the iceberg Dilantha is as a person and as a tireless writer. Of his wider corpus, what he publishes in his poetry blog testifies to a rigorous poetic mind at work, with a turn out rate which, to be put mildly, is feverish. In fact, Dilantha’s better work are found in the blog; and that may purely be a case of selection, as the act of anthologizing does not necessarily let you shortlist the best. He writes with flair and energy, and he seems to be in love with the very idea of lyrical richness and the aesthetic of the articulated word. Kite Dreams has its chief weakness in its selection; and this is best gauged when you compare the line up with some of the poems that come in Dilantha’s blogs. This, too, is a shortage that can be fixed when he publishes again. In any ca