The Million-petalled Flower of Being Here by Vidyan Ravinthiran
PBS Summer Recommendation 2019 Kristín Ómarsdóttir The Long Take is one

The Long Take is one of the most remarkable – and unclassifiable – books of recent years

inventor of the poster poem

stories and loves

the natural and the man-made

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 The Long Take is oneVidyan 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