The Go-Away Bird by Seni Seneviratne folklore by one of the most

by one of the most exciting young poets writing today

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and though the poems are imbued with James Caruth’s quiet acceptance of the way things are

The poems that make up the book’s opening sequence

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The Go-Away Bird by Seni Seneviratne folklore by one of the mostIn her fourth collection, Seni Seneviratne will extend her reputation as a fine poet whose incisive social and political concerns are matched by her meticulous care with the shape of each poem and the architecture of her collections, where individual poems are enriched by their place in the whole and their dialogue with each other. In this collection, the connecting thread is the bird, both in its observed physical otherness and as an image that