A Year of Last Things by Michael Ondaatje colouring bound to prisons of past

bound to prisons of past experience

David Harewood

Migrated Style/ Connected History: Murals in Jaffna is the first comprehensive attempt to map a history of the wall paintings in Jaffna

writing and smoking

Review by Trishna Dutta and Sandeep Sharma

A Year of Last Things by Michael Ondaatje colouring bound to prisons of pastAfter nearly twenty years, Michael Ondaatje returns to poetry, the form in which he began his career over fifty years ago. Born in Sri Lanka during the Second World War, Ondaatje was sent as a child to school in London, and later moved to Canada. While he has lived there since, these poems reflect the life of a writer, traveller and watcher of the world describing himself as a 'mongrel', someone born out of diverse cultures. Here, rediscovering the