Clare Hart of One World Cafe hosts an interview and reading with Seni Seneviratne More details HERE
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Interview with Seni in “Words of Colour”
JOY FRANCIS WRITES: Seni Seneviratne is many things, including a poet, creative artist and psychotherapist who also sings acapella. Of English and Sri Lankan heritage, Seneviratne was born and raised in Leeds, Yorkshire. An alumnus of Ten – The Complete Works programme, her first collection of poetry, Wild Cinnamon and Winter Skin, was published in […]
The Heart of It – OUT SOON
My new poetry collection will be published in April 2012. You can pre-order it from Inpress Books by Peepal Tree Press
29th October Sheffield Performance
Seni Seneviratne and Caasha-Luul Mohamud Yusuf Sat 29 October 2011 @ 7.30pm Lantern Theatre This event is part of Off the Shelf Literature Festival http://www.offtheshelf.org.uk/events.php?eiID=1696 Tickets Tickets £6/£4 (cons) from: Arena Ticket Shop Tel. 0114 256 5567/+29th
London Reading 21st October
On Friday October 21st the London launch of the anthology Collective Brightness: LGBTIQ Poets on Faith, Religion & Spirituality (Sibling Rivalry Press) http://collectivebrightness.com. first-ever anthology featuring LGBTIQ poets from all over the world writing about and from various faith, religion and spiritual practices. The event will take place at The London Buddhist Centre,51 Roman Road, Bethnal Green, London, E2 0HU […]
Video of Seni reading: The Half-Mad Aunt in August 2011
My poem, The Half-Mad Aunt, is featured on http://movingpoems.com/category/spoken-word/ which is an on-going anthology of the best videopoems, filmpoems, animated poems, and other poetry videos from around the web. It was posted on 19th August and featured on the home page. It is now accessible in the spoken word category archive. The poem will be published […]
Mir Mahfuz Ali interviews Seni Seneviratne
Mahfuz: When did you realize that you had a poet in you that wanted to burst out defying all odds? Seni: It’s hard to pinpoint a moment when I first realised I had a poet inside me. My quest for connection through language feels like it has been with me a long time. I don’t […]
Living the Question: Interview in Barely South Review
by Tara Shea Burke: I arrived for my interview with poet, activist, photographer, singer, and psychotherapist, Seni Seneviratne, with pages of questions and probably too much excitement. This was my first interview with a poet and, after hearing her read at Old Dominion University’s annual literary festival the day before, I knew she would move and […]
Cape Town collaboration with Manfred Zylla and Garth Erasmus
Seni Seneviratne performed Rumours of War, a poetry and song sequence, in dialogue with Manfred Zylla’s solo exhibition, Again and Again and accompanied by the music of Manfred Zylla and Garth Erasmus Again and Again comprises a selection of new large-scale drawings in mixed media. They tell of the plight of the world, point to Manfred’s strong concern with the […]
ODU 33rd Annual Literary Festival 2010
Seni is an international guest at Old Dominion University campus Oct. 4-8 2010 for the 33rd Annual Literary Festival, “Hard Times in America.” “Hard times are inevitably entwined with racism, crime, despair, an inequitable legal system, inadequate medical care and inequalities in education, but they sometimes provide examples of heroism, innovation and achievement,” said Mike […]