Vivimarie Vanderpoorten (poet)
Nothing prepares you for
Pain.
It hits you like a bus
In the street
While you're trying to shield your eyes from the glare
Of the mid-day sun
While you are thing ordinary thoughts
Link "where did I leave my keys"
Vivimarie Vanderpoorten is best know for her collection of poems titled " Nothing Prepares
You (2007) for which she was awarded the prestigious Gratiaen Prize for writing in English
in 2008.
Her poetry has appeared in "Channels", "Nethara", "Options", "Pravada"
(now "Polity") and in "Postcolonial Text". It has been read and perfomed at the British
Council, Colombo, at Downing College, Cambridge, at the Galle Literary Festival
(2007 and 2008), at the German Cultural Centre, Colombo and in the USA recently, at a
felicitation event by Human Rights Watch. She was one of three poets whose work was
featured in November 2007 at St. Andrews Scots Kirk in Colombo at the performance poetry
event "In a Shadow". Recently, her poetry has appeared in Spanish translation in the
Mexican journal "Mexico Papeles de la Mancuspia".
Vivimarie Vanderpoorten teaches English language,
literature and linguistics at the Open University of Sri Lanka
*Information from Writers' Profiles PDF available to be downloaded on assa.net
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