Available to order from Peepal Tree Press ‘The movement of Seni Seneviratne’s second collection The Heart of It is two-fold like that of the heart: here is a poet able to combine the personal in enchanting lyrics of desire with the political in poems that, through imaginative power, portray other lives – marginalised, brutalised, lost – as […]
Seni Seneviratne’s debut collection offers a poetic landscape that echoes themes of migration, family, love and loss and reflects her personal journey as a woman of Sri Lankan and English heritage. The poems cross oceans and centuries. In ‘Cinnamon Roots’ Seni Seneviratne travels from colonial Britain to Ceylon in the 15th century and back to […]
Humans have always valued the short story as a way to make sense of the world, and their place in it. This anthology by leading Black and Asian British writers is filled with a rich variety of stories, which, like life, rarely end in the way we might expect… Listed in BuzzFeed’s ‘22 Brilliant […]
Ambitious poems by contemporary women poets. Edited by Myra Schneider, Penelope Shuttle and Dilys Wood. The focus is on women’s writing which deals with ‘big issues’, for example the future of the planet, good and evil aspects of our relationship with the natural world and with each other, different aspects of our imaginative understanding of […]
From Aberdeen to the Isle of Wight, Out of Bounds is a newly charted map of Britain as viewed by its black and Asian poets. It takes the reader on a riveting, sensory journey through Scotland, England and Wales, showing the whole country from a fresh perspective. This extensive and ground-breaking anthology – with its […]
This beautiful anthology brings together over 250 poems about flowers, plants and trees from eight centuries of writing in English, creating a rich bouquet of intriguing juxtapositions. Fourteenth-century lyrics sit next to poems of the twenty-first century; celebrations of plants native to the English soil share the volume with more exotic plant poetry. There are […]
Seni is one of the ten poets featured in Bloodaxe anthology, TEN: new poets from Spread the Word, which is currently on their list of best sellers. Here’s what the Poet Laureate, Carol Ann Duffy, had to say about the book: ‘This thrilling, moving, challenging and inspiring new anthology introduces 10 sparkling new talents who demonstrate the […]
The Forward Book of Poetry 2008, published on National Poetry Day, collects together the judges’ highly commended poems from all the submissions considered for this year’s Forward Prizes for Poetry
