Shash Trevett
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Poet & Tr | ‘The Naming of Names’ (2024) @PoetryBusiness| ‘Out of SriLanka’ @BloodaxeBooks| @MPTmagazine Trustee| @LedburyCritics| @KinaraPoets| ViewsMyOwn
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Joined August 2013
Thank you @CEdgoose for this wonderfully sensitive review of ‘The Naming of Names’. To sound the names of these dead is an affirmation of their humanity, and ours. And I am so grateful for how you’ve focused on this in your review. Thank you, thank you.
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Those who have read Shash Trevett’s debut pamphlet, From a Borrowed Land, will recognise a number of the poems in her debut full collection, The Naming of Names, if often in slightly amended form; …
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RT @lankafiles: "Is this a country or a graveyard?". On the 2nd day of Black July Week, victims in Mannar march from Sri Lanka's biggest Sa….
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RT @lankafiles: Sri Lanka ruling party condemned in @ParliamentLK for sending trainloads and busloads of their youth wing cadres to Jaffna….
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RT @kumanan93: Chemmani Mass Grave Excavation – Phase 2, Day 17. A total of 8 more human skeletons were identified today at the Chemmani ma….
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RT @kumanan93: #ChemmaniMassGrave | Court Update – July 15. Archaeology Professor Raj Somadeva submitted an interim report to the Jaffna Ma….
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RT @lankafiles: On Wednesday, a solemn memorial was held at the St Peter's Church in Navali, Jaffna to mark three decades since the aerial….
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RT @kumanan93: Chemmani Mass Grave – Phase 2, Day 11. As of today, a total of 47 human skeletons have been identified, with 44 fully exhume….
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RT @JDSLanka: As 7th day of exhumation work at Chemmani massgrave in Jaffna concluded on Wednesday (2), lead forensic archaeologist Prof. R….
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RT @kumanan93: Chemmani Mass Grave Exhumation — Phase 2: Day 7. The exhumation took place under the supervision of Jaffna Magistrate A.A. A….
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RT @JDSLanka: Sri Lankan Forensic Archaeologist Prof. Raj Somadeva inspects some toys found in a school bag that was discovered from a mass….
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RT @BloodaxeBooks: ‘In dialogue here not just with his Sri Lankan heritage, but with Keats, Marvell, Seamus Heaney and Walter de la Mare, R….
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Our resident poetry expert recommends four collections to enjoy this summer, from a nature anthology to Fiona Benson’s witchy verse
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RT @BloodaxeBooks: Many congratulations to Kaycee Hill (@kayceepoet) on winning an Eric Gregory Award for the manuscript of a new collectio….
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RT @BloodaxeBooks: Thanks to @ShashTrevett and Tayiba Sulaiman for these excellent reviews of Vidyan Ravinthiran's third collection #Avidyā….
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RT @BloodaxeBooks: Great to hear poet and dancer #TishaniDoshi reading a new poem on @BBCRadio4's @R4TheVerb and discussing a stand-out lin….
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Ian McMillan's guests include Scottish Makar Peter Mackay & Jamaican poet Lorna Goodison
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RT @kumanan93: Excavation resumed yesterday (June 2) at the suspected #massgrave site at #Chemmani Sithupaththi Hindu Cemetery in Jaffna. F….
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RT @amnestysasia: Sri Lanka: Thousands of Tamils gathered today at Mullivaikkal, in the Northern district of Mullaithivu to mark 16 years s….
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RT @BloodaxeBooks: Huge congratulations to #MarieHowe on winning the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry 2025 for her New & Selected Poems. This ret….
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