#  New Book Release: Poetry and Opinion by Vidyan Ravinthiran  

 





March 13, 2026

 

 

Vidyan Ravinthiran's newest publication, *Poetry and Opinion*, was released on March 10th by Cambridge University Press. It'll be free online for the next two weeks. A description is included below:   
  
"Identifying ourselves, others, writers, with their opinions—and taking the form of the opinion as the epitome of political engagement—we assert a picture of the self that ought to be scrutinized. Mass print generated, along with the railways, telegraph, information-relays national and global, as well as the development of specialized forms of technological, scientific, economic, and medical knowledge, a sea of discourse belying any vision of a cogent public sphere: disinformation is not a purely 21st century, internet phenomenon. Poetry helps us understand this situation. Appearing in verse, claims about reality have been characterized, or have self-characterized, as virtual. As such, Romantic and post-Romantic poetry makes perceptible other ways in which, in other precincts, utterance becomes virtualized. Sometimes, by the psychological turbulences of the citizen-as-creature, appropriating world events to the need to self-assert; sometimes, as a result of affective matrices that challenge the idea that we are the authors of our own opinions."  
  
Learn more [here](https://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/poetry-and-opinion/1039EFF7B66AF1F6AD12D7B9D4224A68).



 

 

 



 

 

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