Desh Balasubramaniam is a young poet. He was born in Sri Lanka and grew up in both the war torn Northern & Eastern provinces. He fled to New Zealand at the age of thirteen with his family on humanitarian asylum. His work has appeared in Overland, Mascara Literary Review, Blackmail Press, The Big Issue and Sunday Times (Sri Lanka) Online. He is currently working on his first poetry collection.

• Poetry : The good people

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