robinwalter 's review for:

Out of Sri Lanka by Seni Seneviratne, Shash Trevett, Vidyan Ravinthiran

4.0

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

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I scored this anthology only 4/5  not because it was less than excellent but simply because it was too emotionally draining. Brutal and uncompromising, the poems within were often very painful to read. Of course, the world they describe is so much more painful and vicious, but the emotional faitgue of reading them all was a bit overwhelming.