{"product_id":"poems-9781912605859","title":"Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Sundari Maheswaran\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Stonewake Books\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Stonewake Books\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Asian - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis, my first collection of poetry, reflects my heritage, professional life, and other stories.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI am Malaysian of Sri Lankan Tamil descent. I have lived in the U.K and in the West Midlands throughout my adult life. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this collection I have tried to weave the threads of the vibrant multilingual Malaysian culture into my Malaysian themed poems from our love of food to childhood memories. I have expressed myself in Malaysian English alongside some lines in Malay and Tamil. These poems are perhaps best realised as spoken word.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA significant part of my identity is defined by medicine. I hope the poems echoing my time as a junior doctor and a GP show some of the raw emotion and humour associated with life in clinical medicine.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI have referenced the work of V.V. Ganeshananthan's novel \u003cem\u003eBrotherless Night\u003c\/em\u003e and Philip Larkin's poem \u003cem\u003eThis Be The Verse\u003c\/em\u003e in two of my poems on heritage and parents respectively.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInterspersed among my poems are some sketches which I hope add a visual companion to the words.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMy wish is that you read my poems and perhaps find a thread or nugget that chimes with your own story\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Stonewake Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47892728381591,"sku":"9781912605859","price":920.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781912605859.webp?v=1781188525","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/poems-9781912605859","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}