The Go-Away Bird Michael Rosen to extraordinary rendition

to extraordinary rendition

With fury and care

Banipal 25 opens with a tribute to the late poet Mohammed al-Maghut whose death we learnt of as we were going to press

translated by Ghenwa Hayek

Chris Kamara

The Go-Away Bird Michael Rosen to extraordinary renditionIn her fourth collection, Seni Seneviratne extends 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 carries