An evangelical majesty rings through this debut collection of poetry
By Yomal Senerath-YapaView(s): Sandesh with his book Sandesh Bartlett’s mother was a literature teacher, so that before he was 10 he knew words like ‘hyperbole’ and ‘onomatopoeia’. But it was being in the choir stalls of the S. Thomas’ Mt. Lavinia chapel- captivated by the solemn beauty of all the liturgical praise and worship that kindled in him a love for language. The elevated diction and soaring old hymns with their “rich language, masterfully crafted with a wondrous melodic metre, working in congruence with music”- filled him with awe and glory. Something of this evange...
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