Split by Juana Adcock
PBS Winter Choice 2019 Seni Seneviratne focusing our attention on the

focusing our attention on the joys of family and art

Poems where the ego-self of the poet is absent

Is Not is the kind of book that takes a lifetime to write – a book of the spirit made manifest by the poet’s unrelenting gaze and her intimate engagement with the mysteries that keep us reaching

ventriloquised with the ‘cognition of bone’

you will not find him in history books or collections of ‘bygone’ skills

Split by Juana Adcock <b><br>PBS Winter Choice 2019</b> Seni Seneviratne focusing our attention on theSplit is the Poetry Book Society Choice for Winter, 2019. Juana Adcocks Split begins with a conversation between a woman and a snake and ends with thirteen voices affirming the vitality, difficulty and necessity of attuned communication. These poems question where we might find fulfilment, power and hope, and it turns out thats rarely where weve been taught they exist. Split is at once playful, philosophical, angry, nuanced and ultimately