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IT'S PUBLICATION DAY! & we're launching 2 fantastic debut pamphlets from Gabrielle 美瑩 & #IlishaPurcell. Gabrielle's #Rustlings is 'Scintillating, experimental and sensuous' Jennifer Wong Ilisha's #WhatSheSaid is 'An extraordinary work' #HeidiWilliamson tinyurl.com/3uuytcv6

Gabrielle 美瑩 Jennifer Wong The Poetry Society Poetry School Manchester Writing School Scottish Book Trust Scottish Poetry Library Topping & Company Booksellers of Edinburgh Niall Campbell Shash Trevett We are SO pleased with the quality of both these debut pamphlets. But don't take our word for it. Quotes here and click through to read more! Also free UK P&P for a limited time. tinyurl.com/3uuytcv6

Ilisha’s book is wonderful! I’m so looking forward to watching it go out into the world 🌺

A 2.5 km stretch of the #Palali Road from Vasavilan Junction to Palali has been reopened today (April 10) after 35 years. The road is accessible from 6 a.m. to 5 p.m. with strict military restrictions in place. Only motorcycles, buses, three-wheelers, and vans are allowed.

Saw a lot of posts responding with anger, sarcasm or worse, speaking for the Tamils living in SL. Reconciliation starts with shutting up and listening to opinions that you may not agree with and reflecting on why there is such deep mistrust of SL gov. and the Sinhala people.

🌐French journalists stand in solidarity with the hundreds of Palestinian journalists killed in Gaza by Israel to prevent reporting on the genocide. I wonder what it takes for other journalists to stand against the slaughtering of their colleagues.

Did you know one of the largest Hindu chariots in the world was in Jaffna? The chariot at the Selva Sanniti Murukan Temple at Thondaimanaru, was the largest on the whole island and, by some accounts, the second biggest in the world. I say “was” purposefully. On April 21, 1986,

Poets appearing in-person and online at this year's Ledbury Poetry Festival include Jane Commane, Ellen Cranitch, Matt Howard, Helen Ivory, Gwyneth Lewis, Pascale Petit, Vidyan Ravinthiran and Shash Trevett. Ticket booking now open! Find out more here: bloodaxebooks.com/events?article…

I have just won a Pulitzer Prize for Commentary. Let it bring hope Let it be a tale

Huge congratulations to #MarieHowe on winning the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry 2025 for her New & Selected Poems. This retrospective was published in 2024 by W. W. Norton & Company in the US and by Bloodaxe Books in the UK & Ireland (as What the Earth Seemed to Say). bloodaxebooks.com/news?articleid…

Sri Lanka: Thousands of Tamils gathered today at Mullivaikkal, in the Northern district of Mullaithivu to mark 16 years since the end of Sri Lanka’s internal armed conflict. Victims of the conflict are still pursuing justice and accountability for allegations of serious

Excavation resumed yesterday (June 2) at the suspected #massgrave site at #Chemmani Sithupaththi Hindu Cemetery in Jaffna. Five additional human skull fragments were recovered, bringing the total number of remains found so far to seven. Present at the site were Jaffna Teaching

Great to hear poet and dancer #TishaniDoshi reading a new poem on BBC Radio 4's The Verb and discussing a stand-out line from a Tamil love poem with host Ian McMillan. Her most recent book is her 2021 fourth collection A God at the Door. (From 24:55.) bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

Thanks to Shash Trevett and Tayiba Sulaiman for these excellent reviews of Vidyan Ravinthiran's third collection #Avidyā and the late Professor Benjamin Zephaniah's Dis Poetry: Selected Poems & Lyrics in the PoetryBookSoc Summer Bulletin. Both books were published by Bloodaxe Books in April.

Many congratulations to Kaycee Hill (Kaycee Hill) on winning an Eric Gregory Award for the manuscript of a new collection, Sonic Inheritance. Her debut collection Hot Sauce, joint winner of the inaugural James Berry Poetry Prize, was published by Bloodaxe Books in 2023. #SoAwards

‘In dialogue here not just with his Sri Lankan heritage, but with Keats, Marvell, Seamus Heaney and Walter de la Mare, Ravinthiran deserves more recognition as one of our most musical and memorable poets.' - Graeme Richardson, The Times and The Sunday Times, on Avidyā. thetimes.com/culture/books/…

Sri Lankan Forensic Archaeologist Prof. Raj Somadeva inspects some toys found in a school bag that was discovered from a mass grave site in Chemmani, Jaffna where at least 38 bodies including several children were unearthed as the excavation reached the 6th day of the 2nd phase.

Chemmani Mass Grave Exhumation — Phase 2: Day 7 The exhumation took place under the supervision of Jaffna Magistrate A.A. Anandarajah, with the participation of Archaeology Professor Raj Somadeva and Judicial Medical Officer Selliah Pranavan. So far, 30 complete human skeletons

As 7th day of exhumation work at Chemmani massgrave in Jaffna concluded on Wednesday (2), lead forensic archaeologist Prof. R. Somadewa instructed his team to expand boundaries of the demarcated area to include adjacent land-space suspected to be an extension of the burial site.