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Lakdasa Wikkramasinha of the takarang shed-By GAMINI DE ALWIS Source:Island George Braine in his article “Shakespeare in a takarang shed”, which appeared in the Midweek Review a few weeks ago, referred to Lakdasa Wikkramasinha as being “regarded as perhaps Sri Lanka’s best (poet), writing in English.” It is painful to admit here that I had never read Lakdasa until then. I scrolled through the web and managed to get a few of his works, and became an immediate convert after reading them. His publications are all out of print, which is not surprising. Books of poetry in English in Sri Lanka usually go out of print very soon after publication. What really surprised me was that they were all very slim booklets and some were private publications undertaken by Lakdasa himself. By the time of his untimely death at the age of 36, any plans he may have had to bring out ...