ANAR (Issath Rehana Mohamed Azeem ) Biography
Anar (Issath Rehana Mohamed Azeem) has been writing poetry in Tamil since the 1990s. Her works include Oviem Varaiyathe Thurikai, Enakkuk Kavithai Mukam, Perunkadal Podukiren, Utal Paccai Vaanam & Potupotuththa Mazhaiththooththal (a collection of Tamil folk songs from Sri Lanka) .
Several of her poems have been translated into English and have appeared in journals.
Her books have won several awards, most notably the Government of Sri Lanka's National Literature Award, the Tamil Literary Garden’s (Canada) Poetry Award, the Vijay TV Excellence in the Field of Literature (Sigaram Thotta Pengal) Award and Sparrow Literature Award.
Anar writes regularly on her blog, anarsrilanka.blogspot.com. She lives with her husband and son in the Eastern Province of Sri Lanka at Sainthamaruthu.
Though used to seeing blood
regularly every month,
I am still shocked and flustered
when my child runs to me howling
...
Let the two of us depart
Bury this extreme love
We seized from each other
Into the pits of this night
...
The kiss, flies around
like a strange blue bird.
Have not you seen during
...
Her face dazzled sun-like
rising above her breasts
that were a pair of hills or a heaving mountain.
...
From under a fully mature tree
the frail bodied man was playing the musical instrument.
Dust and dry leaves rose and flew
...
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