Unknown Soldier by Seni Seneviratne
PBS Autumn Recommendation 2019 Pura López Colomé and with only these eloquent

and with only these eloquent

but he ventures - flees

that old beliefs still govern instinct’ – David Harsent

record the loss of the poet’s mother in some of his most moving poems to date

in other words

Unknown Soldier by Seni Seneviratne <br><b>PBS Autumn Recommendation 2019</b> Pura López Colomé and with only these eloquentThis is a collection of huge depth and resonance. Its stimulus is a collection of photographs of the poets late father, then a young man, originally from colonial Sri Lanka, who was serving as a radio operator in an otherwise all white platoon in the 1939 45 desert war in North Africa. As for so many who came back from war to start or resume a family life, there was a great gulf of silence, an unwillingness to speak of those experiences. The