Poetry of India 58/100: Vairamuthu and the Images of Contemporary Tamil Poetry
Part 58 of The Poetry Pulse’s 100-part journey through Indian poetry. Contemporary Tamil poetry and song often draw on landscapes, work, love and social change to make emotional experience vivid. Vairamuthu is a prominent Tamil lyricist and poet whose writing is widely encountered through film songs as well as literary publications. This essay focuses on the craft of lyrical imagery and the way a…
