Lost Evenings Lost Lives : Tamil Poems of the Sri Lankan Civil War
Holmstrom, Lakshmi (ed); Ebeling, Sascha (ed)
Arc Publications (2016)
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#6209
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Anthology
Softcover 9781904614999
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Nationality Sri Lanka
Pub Place Todmorden
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Conflict Asian Wars Misc
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4 copies listed on WorldCat

Lost Evenings, Lost Lives, translated and edited by Lakshmi Holmström and Sascha Ebeling, Arc Publications, 2015

Lost Evenings, Lost Lives, is a bilingual anthology of Tamil poetry. The poems, arranged in broadly chronological order, trace the events of the civil war in Sri Lanka, as witnessed and absorbed by the Tamil poets in question. Beginning in 1977 and ending in 2015, the 32 anthologised poets have been elegantly and sensitively translated, capturing in English the lyrical sparsity of the Tamil originals, bringing to a new audience the beauty of a language which has poetry at its core. From the first to the last, the poems presented are a map guiding the reader through the suffering of the Tamil people over the last thirty-five years; signposts to the bloody history of the people in the North and East of Sri Lanka.

Review from http://www.mptmagazine.com/review/those-destined-to-bear-witness-87/: