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Unknown Soldier:
Review by Chris Searle for Race & Class, vol. 61, 4: pp. 107-108. on Thursday, April 2, 2020
When I was a boy in the postwar years, I grew into reading through dozens of accounts of wartime memoirs and experiences in the plethora of cheap paperbacks that were everywhere – Pan Books, Corgi Books, Four Square Books, Mayflower Books and many more imprints. Half a crown each, corner shops, newsagents and station booths were swamped by them – stories by ex-service personnel who were almost all male, white and officer class – narratives of heroism, tenacity and escape in German and Japanese prisoner-of-war camps, war at sea, on land, in deserts, in snow. Our generation discovered words and images in their wartime wake.
But what about the millions who returned but never told, never wrote, remained silent about their war and its shattering experiences? Unknown Soldier is an unforgettable and beautifully told story in poetry and photographs about one of those who never let on, a black man from colonial Ceylon in a white regiment whom comrades called ‘Snowball’, a radio operator and signaller in the North African campaign, written by his daughter who, as a child, found him silent about his years of conflict in desert tents, trails and trench
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I Don't Call Myself a Poet
Interview with Seni Seneviratne by Lakeshia Sterling-Henry
Seni’s website.
1. What made or inspired you to start writing poetry?
I was very interested particularly in war poetry. So I used to find poets I liked and copy them out into a book. I actually still have them, all sorts of handwritten poems that I really liked. I guess I started writing poetry just for myself really, you know issues to do with growing up, identity and I never showed my poetry really to anyone they were just really personal. It was only really later, probably in the late 80’s, that I started to show my stuff to somebody else, there were a couple of other women and we started to show each other our work. So yeah I could say I got into it from a very personal route I would say – a way of expressing myself and how I was feeling. That was kind of the way I wanted to do it.
2. How old were you when you first started writing poetry? Starting form a young age at school you mentioned above, that must have been very difficult, from being at such a young age? Did you have other friend’s that liked to write as well or was it something that u liked to do on your own?
I first started writing poetry when I was at school, and I enjoyed reading poetry, and I also stud