The Million-petalled Flower of Being Here by Vidyan Ravinthiran
PBS Summer Recommendation 2019 Kristín Ómarsdóttir You can barely walk across

You can barely walk across the living room without stubbing your toe on a bit or getting some in your eye

the natural and the man-made

burn you with the steepness of the morning after or put its long stem-like feet right in the centre of your chest

stories and loves

the poems are linked by themes of dislocation and heredity

The Million-petalled Flower of Being Here by Vidyan Ravinthiran <br><b>PBS Summer Recommendation 2019</b> Kristín Ómarsdóttir You can barely walk acrossVidyan Ravinthirans second collection is a book of sonnets for his wife. These are love poems that turn analytical, consider the world, and in which the pronoun we aspires to stand for a larger community, including (if you like) the readers themselves. Many describe life in northern England for a mixed race couple, considering both the redemptive force of love and the cultural origins of our discontent. Brexit; racist and sexist abuse; class; our work