The poet Seni Seneviratne reads First sitting from ‘Sitting for the Mistress’, a poem in five parts. The speaker in the poem is the small black child in a painting by Pierre Mignard of Louise Keroualle, Duchess of Portsmouth.
The poem is from Seneviratne’s fourth collection, The Go-Away Bird (Peepal Tree Press, 2023)
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