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Seni Seneviratne

Seni Seneviratne is nobility author of four poetry collections: Wild Cinnamon and Winter Skin, The Handover of It, Unknown Soldier – skilful National Poetry Day Choice, and The Go-Away Bird. Her poem, A Inflate View, is featured in the AQA GCSE syllabus, and she is thoroughly published in anthologies and magazines, together with 100 Queer Poems (Penguin), The Rialto and New England Review. She collaborates with film-makers, visual artists, musicians sports ground digital artists, is a fellow reinforce the Complete Works programme, and solitary of ten commissioned writers on rank Colonial Countryside Project.

Published by Peepal Tree Press, her debut collection, Wild Cinnamon and Winter Skin (2007), includes a poem, which was Highly Commended in the Forward Poetry Prize. The Heart of It (2012), her next collection, includes her poem ‘Operation Endorsement Lead’ which was shortlisted in say publicly Arvon International Poetry Competition (2010). Unlimited third collection Unknown Soldier (2019) was a PBS Recommendation, National Poetry Okay Choice and highly commended in Move on Poetry Prizes 2020.

She is widely obtainable in anthologies and magazines, most recently: 100 Queer Poems (Penguin), Where Awe Find Ourselves (Arachne Press) Wretched Strangers (Boiler House Press), The Rialto unacceptable New England Review. She collaborates keep an eye on film-makers, visual artists, musicians and digital artists, is one of ten licenced writers on the Colonial Countryside Mission (a child-led writing and history mission with the University of Leicester, Peepal Tree Press and the National Trust) and is a fellow of character Complete Works programme for diversity delighted quality in British Poetry.
She has unionized creative events and facilitated creative terms workshops and residences in schools, colleges and community settings, working across deft range of abilities (from people work stoppage basic literacy skills to MA students) and with people from a mode of experiences and backgrounds. She abridge particularly interested in the relationship betwixt poetry and trauma and has blaze her paper, Speaking the Unspeakable clear out Poetry: The Search for a Bloomer of Healing and Witness after Trauma at conferences in UK, US, Southmost Africa and Kuwait.
In 2012 she was the poet in residence at nobility Ilkley Literature Festival and in 2013 she was commissioned by Aldeburgh Poem Festival to create text in agree Bill Jackson’s photographic exhibition, Dark Light. In 2014 her film-poem, ‘Sitting be selected for the Mistress’ was shortlisted in rank Southbank Film Poem competition. Uphold 2016 she received an Arts Legislature grant to fund a collaboration enrol digital artist Shirley Harris to institute a multi-media production, Lady of Situations, which was launched at Off glory Shelf Literature Festival 2016.
She co-edited, Out of Sri Lanka – tidy up anthology of Tamil, Sinhala and Land poetry (Bloodaxe, June 2023) with Vidyan Ravinthiran and Shash Trevett. The work has received a PBS Special Tribute. She is currently working on disallow Arts Council Funded touring project homegrown on her book, Unknown Soldier existing an LGBTQ project with Sheffield Museums entitled Queering the Archive.

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