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Bridging Connections, Channels, Cheran, Death, English Writers Cooperative, Gunadasa Amerasekera, Poetry, Rex Baker, Too Old For Tears
To say something new or striking about Death as an abstract concept is not easy for a poet. It has long been a subject of poetry, along with the inevitable passing of time and the approach of death.
The three poems published here this week all however have something unusual about them, which I believe well worthy of special notice.
Rex Baker was British Council Representative in Sri Lanka from 1984, though by the time he left in 1990 he was called a Director, and the Council had turned into a commercial outfit – though thankfully that did not prevent at least a couple of his successors from taking forward also the altruistic work that had been the hallmark of the Council in the past, when wonderful characters like Bill McAlpine held sway.