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University of Birmingham,and is an editor at Prac Crit,the online magazine of poetry andpoetics,as well as the author of Elizabeth Bishop's Prosaic(Bucknell,2015),winner of both the University English Prizeand the Warren-Brooks Award for Outstanding Literary Criticism.His first book of poems,Grun-tu-molani(Bloodaxe Books,2014),was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection,the Seamus Heaney Centre Poetry Prize and the Michael MurphyMemorial Prize.His second collection,The Million-petalledFlower of Being Here(Bloodaxe Books,2019)is a Poetry BookSociety Recommendation;poems towards it won a NorthernWriters Award.He also writes literary journalism,most recentlyfor Poetry(verse)and The Telegraph(fiction),and is representedas an author of fiction by the Wylie Agency.  \n# VIDYAN RAVINTHIRAN\n\nTHE MILLION-PETALLEDFLOWER OF BEING HERE  \nBLODAXE BOKS  \nCopyright ◎ Vidyan Ravinthiran 2019  \nISBN:9781780374765  \nFirst published 2019 byBloodaxe Books Ltd,Eastburn,South Park,Hexham,Northumberland NE461BS.  \nwww.bloodaxebooks.com  \nFor further information about Bloodaxe titlesplease visit our website and join our mailing listor write to the above address for a catalogue.  \nARTSSupported using public funding byARTS COUNCILENGLAND  \nLEGAL NOTICE  \nAll rights reserved.No part of this book may bereproduced,stored in a retrieval system,or  \ntransmitted in any form,or by any means,electronic,mechanical,photocopying,recording or otherwise,  \nwithout prior written permission from Bloodaxe Books Ltd.Requests to publish work from this bookmust be sent to Bloodaxe Books Ltd.  \nVidyan Ravinthiran has asserted his right under  \nSection 77 of the Copyright,Designs and Patents Act 1988to be identified as the author of this work.  \nCover design:Neil Astley &Pamela Robertson-Pearce.  \nPrinted in Great Britain by Bell &Bain Limited,Glasgow,Scotland,onacid-fre paper sourced from mills with FSC chain of custody certification.  \nfor Jenny  \n## ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS\n\nPoems set wholly in italics are found poems,drawn from the writernamed in the title(Paatti'is Tamil for one's paternal grandmother).‘Clouds,two'is a translation from Jorge Luis Borges,with a bit ofArun Kolatkar spliced in.  \nI'm grateful to the editors at PN Reviem,The Poetry Review,TheDark Horse,The Nation,The Yale Reviem and COG for publishingsome of these poems.Two appeared in The Mighty Stream:poems incelebration of Martin Luther King(Bloodaxe Books/Newcastle Centrefor the Literary Arts,2018).This collection could not have beencompleted without the support of New Writing North,and I wouldalso like to thank Liz Kleinman for her intelligence and tact.SarahHowe and Dai George read the manuscript both kindly and critically;regarding ‘Our first house',Dai would have it remembered that MichaelChopra turned out to be a perfectly serviceable Championship striker.  \nThe front cover shows a woodcut of a Leonids meteor storm in1833 adapted for a Seventh-day Adventist book,Bible Readings for theHome Circle(1889);the back cover features an inset portrait by mywife,Jenny Holden.  \nCONTENTS  \n11 Today/Aubade12 Sea break /Hazlitt13 Frost /The armchairs14 Learning /Jigsaw15 Riposte /Fiction  \n16 Hail/Nothing can be sole or whole...17 Ceylon/DH1  \n18 Our first house /A gift  \n19 You've been teaching me /BAME20 Thought experiment /An email  \n21 In this room /Children say the funniest things22 There are things/Sometimes23 Who am I/No  \n24 Leeds /In my father's room I discover  \n25 Peak District/Clouds,two(Borges feat.Kolatkar)26 Leviathan /That said27 She/She  \n28 The Indian grandfather/John Addington Symonds29 Lingerie /Safe words  \n30 Don't stop/i.m.Steve Hilton  \n31 Outside the Hanuman temple /I mention it32 Parental advice /Worry  \n33 I've noticed something/Conversation34 The fight /Afterwards  \n35 Larkin/The poem of happiness36 S","cbCaibMfRDBNg1nU","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaibMfRDBNg1nU","pdf",3368246,68,"English","# Contents\n## Today/Aubade\n## Sea break /Hazlitt\n## Frost /The armchairs\n## Learning /Jigsaw\n## Riposte /Fiction\n## Hail/Nothing can be sole or whole...\n## Ceylon/DH1\n## Our first house /A gift\n## You've been teaching me /BAME\n## Thought experiment /An email\n## In this room /Children say the funniest things\n## There are things/Sometimes\n## Who am I/No\n## Leeds /In my father's room I discover\n## Peak District/Clouds,two(Borges feat.Kolatkar)\n## Leviathan /That said\n## She/She\n## The Indian grandfather/John Addington Symonds\n## Lingerie /Safe words\n## Don't stop/i.m.Steve Hilton\n## Outside the Hanuman temple /I mention it\n## Parental advice /Worry\n## I've noticed something/Conversation\n## The fight /Afterwards\n## Larkin/The poem of happiness\n## Strictly /Titian\n## Paatti/Today\n## Brexit /Leave\n## In the mixed area/Inspiration\n## Mercy invincibility /Another side effect\n## In my family/Unlike some\n## From the window /That hand\n## We’re/And so\n## from the Tamil /Let\n## Dubrovnik /Trust\n## My body is a cage /Transition\n## Tough mudder/This is not a photograph\n## Faraj /It's a dark\n## Whoever you are /Haircut\n## My parents and I/My Sri Lankan family\n## Swedenborg/Union\n## It's not about you/Barrett/Browning\n## In the bubble /The hearing aid\n## New Year's Eve/Driving\n## This book /Mother and sister\n## The X-Files /Contrarieties\n## In films /We’re moving on\n## Birmingham /Of justice\n## Trying/Artist\n## It must be/Spring","[{\"question\":\"Who is the author of The Million-Petalled Flower of Being Here?\",\"answer\":\"Vidyan Ravinthiran is the author.\"},{\"question\":\"What is the publisher and publication year?\",\"answer\":\"The book is published by Bloodaxe Books and first published in 2019.\"},{\"question\":\"Does the book include poems drawn from previously published sources?\",\"answer\":\"Yes. 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