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 […]
3rd November, 6.30 at Waterstones, Piccadilly Circus. Conversations on Closure Editor Jacob Ross will be talking with contributors Pete Kalu, Jennifer Makumbi, Seni Seneviratne and Ayesha Sidiqqi about their stories in Closure and their own writing processes as well as offering the audience insights around Black British Fiction. (more…)
My poem ‘Weight of the World’ has been commended in the St. Cross College, Four Corners Poetry Competition. Read it here (more…)
are currently taking bookings for my Poetry Surgeries in Sheffield Wed 28 October 2015 Wed 18 November 2015 Book online or call Paul McGrane 020 7420 9881. This is a wonderful opportunity to discuss your poetry on a one-to-one basis with poet and tutor Seni Seneviratne, (more…)
XV Poetry on the Lake Celebration 9th-11th October 2015 Carol Ann Duffy, Gillian Clarke, Imtiaz Dharker, Mmakgari Dabutha, Seni Seneviratne, Michael Swan, Neal Hall, Fausta Squatriti, Kenneth Steven,Caroline Carver, Rebecca Bilkau and international poets.
From April to November this year I was one of eight artists commissioned by Lets Go Global for the Poppy Project – an ambitious digital arts project exploring a contemporary, conceptual view of the First World War Centenary. (more…)
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 […]
I was asked by interactive artist Maya Chowdhry and poet and Science Fiction writer Naomi Foyle to join this blog tour thingy and I said yes to both of them. So here goes with the answers to the four questions. (more…)
My memoir piece, Acts of Love is now posted in full on the Tangled Roots website. Here’s how it begins: I am known in my family as the official archivist. I collect everything – photographs, anecdotes, lists of names on shipping lists, soldiers passbooks, old letters, postcards, inscriptions on headstones. It’s as if they are […]
