A Year of Last Things by Michael Ondaatje colouring Information is not the raw

Information is not the raw material of truth

bound to prisons of past experience

David Harewood

nations and human rights

writing and smoking

A Year of Last Things by Michael Ondaatje colouring Information is not the rawAfter nearly twenty years, Michael Ondaatje returns to poetry, the form in which he began his career over fifty years ago. Born in Sri Lanka during the Second World War, Ondaatje was sent as a child to school in London, and later moved to Canada. While he has lived there since, these poems reflect the life of a writer, traveller and watcher of the world describing himself as a 'mongrel', someone born out of diverse cultures. Here, rediscovering the