6th July, 2012

Wales Book of the Year 2012 winner announced Thursday 12th July

The Wales Book of the Year 2012 winner will be announced Thursday, 12th July at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, Cardiff at 7pm.
Seren have two books on the Best Fiction shortlist, The Last Hundred Days by Patrick McGuinness and The Keys of Babylon by Robert Minhinnick, and we wish them well. To buy tickets, contact Literature Wales: 029 2047 2266 / [email protected]
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Seren have two titles on the shortlist for the ‘dlr Strong Award 2012 (in partnership with Shine) at Poetry Now/ Mountains to Sea’. Eoghan Walls The Salt Harvest and Nerys Williams Sound Archive are shortlisted along side two other poets. The Strong Award is part of Poetry Now at Mountains to Sea dlr Book Festival serves to recognise the promise and achievement of both English and Irish language poets.
All shortlisted nominees will read at the Strong Reading during the Mountains to Sea dlr Book Festival 2012 and the prize-winner will be awarded €1,000
The dlr Strong Award, which is in partnership with Shine, is awarded in memory of Rupert and Eithne Strong.
Meet the Author
Saturday 14th July – Sunday 15th July: Rhian Edwards is reading fromClueless Dogs in the Poetry Tent at The Latitude Festival. 3.40pm(Sat) and 4.40pm (Sun). Check website for more details.
Friday 20th July 6.30pm: Join us at Waterstone’s, Cardiff (The Hayes) for the launch of Lightning Beneath the Sea, Grahame Davies’s first poetry collection in English. ‘Departed’, a poem from this collection will be the Guardian ‘Poem of the Week’ starting from Monday 9th July.