Unexpectedly: A Collection of Poems

Unexpectedly is a poetry collection that captures life in Sri Lanka from the 1970s onwardswritten from the inter-space of war and peace the throes of the pandemic and the edge of political chaos and personal crisis.It is a moving treatise that sweeps from the personal to the political to the social to the cerebral and the philosophical. The themes traverse from universal topics such as humanity time feminism violence anddeath to the experientialthe authors life in academia her encounters with diseases and the gains and costs of her husbands political career.Written in a medley of poetic voices that are passionate as well as tranquil measured as well as nonchalant ironic as well as sincere these poems are haunting and imaginative at once instinctive even as they are historical.