In Mother Self, mum, writer, and academic, Madhu Senaratne, explores motherhood and raising kids in today’s promising yet utterly complex world.

“In Mother Self, Madhushala Senaratne’s poems will take you along on a mother’s journey as usher, witness, and protector, through birth stories told in frank, beautiful language, to gentle moments woven from scraps of paper wrappings, bits of scribbled notes, and paper boats. She is at once voyeur, keen observer, hand holder, and poet.
She is Mother, Self, Voice. She is you.”

Ellen Rowland, author of No Small Thing


I stand at the shrine of the newborn,
brushing wrinkled edges of petals       
drifting between what was
and what is to come…

Newborn Worship – Madhushala Senaratne