Sri Lanka, March 29 -- Internationally renowned world-class academic in the liberal arts disciplines such as cinema and communication studies, Prof. Wimal Dissanayake's maiden book of English poetry titled 'The Kingfisher' offers readers new insights about this widely read Sinhala poet whose work is greatly appreciated in the sphere of arts and letters.

The book offers 79 poems that vary in theme and subject foci, written as free verse. While bearing veins of sobriety, colourfulness and facets of conservatism, some of the poems in 'The Kingfisher', are built on the poetically prosaic approach of descriptiveness that blends seamlessly grains of the voice of an essayist with the image bound flows of verse writing.

The poems 'Remembering E...