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Reflexions: Reading in the present tense, Ingrid de Kok and Mark Heywood continue to invite established and younger writers and other creative artists to reflect on a text that moved them, intellectually engaged them, frightened them or made them laugh. Our reviewer today is Finuala Dowling who reviews Migration, New and Selected Poems by W.S. Merwin.
In 2020, everything I read or reread took on the tint of the pandemic. In Somerset Maugham’s Rain, I saw the explosive impact of quarantine; in David Malouf’s An Imaginary Life I paused to underline Ovid’s reverie about “the randomness with which the disease advanced, how it appeared in one house, striking down all but a single child… then leapt two houses to claim another victim”. I saw my own lockdown-induced remoteness reflected in the types of seclusion featured in Claire Keegan’s ....
The coming extinction: The Moken People of Burma’s Mergui Archipelago The coming extinction: The Moken People of Burma’s Mergui Archipelago Mergui Archipel - Moken People A research report by Burma Human Rights Network In recent years, Myanmar has captured the attention of the international community because of its flagrant human rights violations against its indigenous populations – notably the Rohingya, Rakhine, and Kachin peoples. The country, however, is comprised of several other indigenous and ethnic groups that are experiencing severe human rights violations at the hands of the Tatmadaw and have not landed on the radar of the international community. ....