Seni Seneviratne
Speaker
Seni Seneviratne, a writer of English and Sri Lankan heritage published by Peepal Tree Press: Wild Cinnamon and Winter Skin (2007), The Heart of It (2012), Unknown Soldier (2019), The Go-Away Bird, (2023). Unknown Soldier is a Poetry Book Society Recommendation, a National Poetry Day Choice and was highly commended in the Forward Poetry Prizes 2020. From September 2023 to July 2024 Seni was touring an Arts Council Funded project based on the book. Her poem ‘A Wider View’ is included on the AQA GCSE poetry syllabus. She co-edited Out of Sri Lanka – an anthology of Tamil, Sinhala and English poetry (Bloodaxe, June 2023) with Vidyan Ravinthiran and Shash Trevett. The book received a Poetry Book Society Special Recommendation. She was one of ten commissioned writers on the Colonial Countryside project and is a fellow of the Complete Works programme for diversity and quality in British Poetry. www.seniseneviratne.com
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