About the book
This collection brings together works from across a genre of Sinhala poetry known as “Talamal Varuna,” or elegies of the talipot flower. These verses were anonymously composed between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries.
What our readers say
Palm Tree Poetry is an excellent English rendition of a collection of Sinhala folk verses devoted to the wonders of the Talipot Palm that takes cognisance of attendant social and environmental elements of the relevant ‘everyday’ of folk life.
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