Join Shauna M. Morgan and Seni Seneviratne to discuss community, environment and creating your own 'ground provisions.'
Shauna M. Morgan will read from her debut collection Ground Provisions and Seni Seneviratne will read from Unknown Soldier and new poems. Poetry from local Leeds poet Barsa Ray will open & close the event.
Seed swap: Bring seeds and take new seeds! 🌱 Leave with a sense of purpose & community to sow your own hopes"
About the authors
Raised in a small farming community in Clarendon, Jamaica, Shauna M. Morgan now tends a small urban garden in Lexington, Kentucky (US) where she teaches creative writing and Africana literature at the University of Kentucky. Ground Provisions is her first collection.
Seni Seneviratne, born and raised in Leeds, is of English and Sri Lankan heritage, and the author of four highly-acclaimed collections of poems. Her poem 'A Wider View' is included on the AQA GCSE poetry syllabus, and her collection, Unknown Soldier (2019), was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and National Poetry Day Choice. She is a fellow of the Complete Works programme and has collaborated with film-makers, visual artists, musicians and digital artists. She is currently one of ten commissioned writers on the Colonial Countryside Project: National Trust Houses Reinterpreted. She lives in Derbyshire.