Marked by trauma, From a Borrowed Land bears witness to the Tamil experience during the Sri Lankan civil war. From the safety of 'the borrowed land', these poems remember and grieve both historical and personal loss: loss of lives, of a homeland, of a language, and of a way of life.

Shash Trevett is a Tamil from Sri Lanka who came to the UK as a refugee to escape the civil war. She has collaborated with artists and composers and is a winner of a Northern Writers' Award. She is currently co-editing an anthology of Tamil, English and Sinhala poetry from Sri Lanka and its diaspora communities. Shash was a 2021 Visible Communities Translator in Residence at the National Writing Centre, and in collaboration with Manasamitra, has completed a Residency at Opera North. She is a Board Member of Modern Poetry in Translation.