{"id":9615,"date":"2010-10-18T19:47:22","date_gmt":"2010-10-18T19:47:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=9615"},"modified":"2017-04-09T22:43:16","modified_gmt":"2017-04-09T22:43:16","slug":"wild-cinnamon-and-winter-skin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=9615","title":{"rendered":"Wild Cinnamon and Winter Skin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.peepaltreepress.com\/books\/wild-cinnamon-and-winter-skin\" target=\"_blank\">Wild Cinnamon and Winter Skin<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.peepaltreepress.com\" target=\"_blank\">Peepal Tree Press<\/a>: The Best in Caribbean Writing<br \/>\n2007-03-05<br \/>\n64 pages<br \/>\nISBN: 9781845230500<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/seniseneviratne.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Seni Seneviratne<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.peepaltreepress.com\/books\/wild-cinnamon-and-winter-skin\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.peepaltreepress.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/book_cover_large\/public\/9781845230500_0.jpg\" width=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Seni Seneviratne\u2019s debut collection offers a poetic landscape that echoes themes of migration, family, love and loss and reflects her personal journey as a woman of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sri_Lanka\" target=\"_blank\">Sri Lankan<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/England\" target=\"_blank\">English<\/a> heritage.<\/p>\n<p>The poems cross oceans and centuries. In \u2018Cinnamon Roots\u2019 Seni Seneviratne travels from colonial <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_Kingdom\" target=\"_blank\">Britain<\/a> to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sri_Lanka\" target=\"_blank\">Ceylon<\/a> in the 15th century and back to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Yorkshire\" target=\"_blank\">Yorkshire<\/a> in the 20th Century; in <em>A Wider View<\/em> time collapses and carries her from a 21st century <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Leeds\" target=\"_blank\">Leeds<\/a> back to the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Flax_mill\" target=\"_blank\">flax mills<\/a> of the 19th century; poems like \u2018Grandad\u2019s Insulin\u2019, based on childhood memories, place her in 1950\u2019s Yorkshire but echo links with her Sri Lankan heritage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seni Seneviratne\u2019s debut collection offers a poetic landscape that echoes themes of migration, family, love and loss and reflects her personal journey as a woman of Sri Lankan and English heritage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,8,1617],"tags":[4180,4181],"class_list":["post-9615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-media-archive","category-poetry-books","tag-peepal-tree-press","tag-seni-seneviratne"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9615"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53365,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9615\/revisions\/53365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}