The Go-Away Bird

by Seneviratne, Seni

• ISBN13: 9781845235567
• ISBN10: 1845235568
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2024-02-01
• Publisher: Peepal Tree Press Ltd.

Summary

In her fourth collection, Seni Seneviratne extends her reputation as a fine poet whose incisive social, ecological and political concerns are matched by her meticulous care with the shape of each poem and the architecture of the whole, where individual poems dialogue with each other across five sections. In this collection, the connecting thread is the bird, both in its observed physical otherness and as an image that carries cultural and historical resonances. As a poet who balances careful observation with imaginative flight, Seni Seneviratne addresses both heart and mind.

Author Biography

Seni Seneviratne is the author of three earlier collections: Wild Cinnamon and Winter Skin, The Heart of It and Unknown Soldier – a National Poetry Day Choice. She is widely published in anthologies and magazines, including 100 Queer Poems (Penguin), The Rialto and New England Review. She collaborates with film-makers, visual artists, musicians and digital artists, is a fellow of the Complete Works programme, and one of ten commissioned writers on the Colonial Countryside Project.