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A poetry collection that captures the life in Sri Lanka during the pandemic even as the poet deals with a personal crisis. Unexpectedly is a moving treatise that rages from the personal to the political, penned during a time in which Sri Lanka teetered on the edge of political chaos. The themes range from universal topics such as war, feminism, humanity, to the deeply personal the author's privileged status as the First Lady of Sri Lanka, her life in academia, her husband's political position, her battle with cancer, her mother's death.\n\nWritten in a voice that is both passionate and ironic, these poems are haunting and imaginative, at once personal even as they are historical.
Maithree Wickramasinghe is a Sri Lankan academic who has written and spoken widely on gender equality and feminism. She is Chair and Senior Professor of English at the University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, and founding Director of the Centre for Gender Studies. <br><br> She's also a Visiting Professor at the University of Sussex and an Honorary Professor at the University of Wolverhampton, UK. With over thirty years of experience, she's an expert in gender equity and equality policies, training, and programme evaluation for organisations like the ILO, UNFPA, and UNESCO. <br><br> She is the author of From Theory to Action - Women, Gender and Development and was an Associate Editor of the Wiley Blackwell Encyclopaedia on Gender and Sexuality Studies. <br><br> Other work includes an influential training module, An Introduction to Gender Mainstreaming Universities. Wickramasinghe is a Champion for the Commonwealth Secretariat's 'Say No More Campaign and serves on various university boards, including the Asian University for Women in Bangladesh.
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