Avidya by Vidyan Ravinthiran Elhum Shakerifar Gwyneth Lewis has won wide

Gwyneth Lewis has won wide acclaim for her versatile and varied writing across genres

’ —Moniza Alvi

it is a poem that establishes a space and time for thinking at a pace that runs against the ways we internalise productivity and repress desire in times of crisis

communicating the ache of the here and now

the transporting debut from the author of House of Lords and Commons

Avidya by Vidyan Ravinthiran Elhum Shakerifar Gwyneth Lewis has won widePublished 24th April 2025. These poems emerged from journeys of great personal significance, and out of a migrant sensibility tied to three different countries. Sensuous, droll, yearning, they consider otherwise forgotten (ignored, repressed, erased) events. In 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