A collection of poems in English by Carl Muller, issued by the Colombo house Godage Publishers.
Muller is a name most readers in Sri Lanka meet first through fiction. His trilogy of novels about Burgher life — The Jam Fruit Tree, Yakada Yaka and Once Upon a Tender Time — is the work he is most closely associated with, and The Jam Fruit Tree won the Gratiaen Prize. His short-story collection All God's Children was shortlisted for the same award. He worked as a journalist as well as a novelist, and wrote poetry throughout his life.
This book belongs to that poetry. It is a single-author collection, printed in English, and it sits alongside the novels rather than repeating them: readers who know Muller only as a novelist of Burgher Colombo will find here the other half of his writing life. Godage, an established Colombo publisher issuing books in Sinhala and English, has kept a good deal of Sri Lankan writing of this period in print, and this title is part of that list.
It will suit readers building a shelf of Sri Lankan writing in English, anyone following Muller's work beyond the fiction, and students and collectors of contemporary Sri Lankan poetry. Books of this kind, published locally in modest quantities, are not always easy to find outside the island, which is reason enough for readers abroad to pick up a copy when one appears.
- Author: Carl Muller
- Publisher: Godage Publishers
- Published: 2008
- Language: English
- Pages: 112
- ISBN: 9789553001580
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