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Vivimarie VanderPoorten

Saturday, July 1, 2017

My new book is now available, published by Sarasavi


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Reviews of and articles about my poetry

  • My Youtube channel
  • 2016 Grataien Shortlist - Interview with the Sunday Times
  • Liyanage Amarakeerthi's review and translations in Boondi
  • Article by Liyanage Amarakeerthi
  • Mendis, D. (2011). Metaphors of childhood, love and death in the poetry of Vivimarie VanderPoorten. In Dinithi Karunanayake and Selvy Thiruchandran (eds). Continuities/Departures: Essays on Postcolonial women’s writing in English. Women’s Education and Research Center. Colombo: Sri Lanka.
  • The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics: Fourth Edition (Roland Greene, editor in chief)
  • Arbiters of a National Imaginary : Essays on Sri Lanka (Edited by Chelva Kanaganayakam)
  • Dr Maryse Jayasuriya's "Terror and Reconciliation: Sri Lankan Anglophone Literature, 1983-2009"

Reviews and Interviews, news.

  • Explosion, Reading by poet
  • Interview with UTEP Radio, El Paso, Texas, USA (Spring 2018)
  • Proust questionnaire with Quarterly Literary Review Singapore
  • SAARC Award
  • Grataien Short List 2016
  • Where to buy my books online
  • Singapore Writers Festival 2011
  • Poetry in performance
  • Announcement of Award
  • Interview with Canadian Radio 2012
  • My favourite Sri Lankan English language writer too :-)
  • Review of SYES by Marianne David
  • My work on Groundviews
  • Review of 'nothing prepares you' by Neloufer De Mel
  • Interview with The Colombo Spirit
  • Interview with Sunday Times April 2008
  • Interview with Young Asia TV September 2008

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The way I look at it, I’m passing through a phase: gradually I’m changing to a word. Whatever you choose to claim of me is always yours; nothing is truly mine ... I only borrowed this dust. (Stanley Kunitz)
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