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June 17, 2011
‘Real Swansea’
Published 22nd April 2008 by Nigel Jenkins. Welcome to the breezily resurgent, ´ugly, lovely´ city of Swansea. Once a dynamic port and the metallurgical capital of the world, it was later famous for a vibrant artistic life, which included poets Dylan…
June 17, 2011
‘Real Aberystwyth’
Released 9th April 2008 by Niall Griffiths. Aberystwyth: two languages, a university, a farming community, a port turned marina, a holiday resort, seat of the National Library of Wales and the Welsh Books Council, home to writers and spies. It is a s…
June 17, 2011
Niall Griffiths
Niall Griffiths lives near Aberystwyth, and has published seven fiction books to date. His 2004 novel, Stump, won the Welsh Book of the Year Award. He has been published by Bloomsbury and Cape and his work continues to receive strong critical acclaim…
June 17, 2011
‘Real Wrexham’
Published 4th December 2007 by Grahame Davies. “Sometimes I read something and it seems to be so ‘right’ it is beautiful – and that is how this short passage seems to me…Grahame Davies is an accomplished poet, journalist and critic and is also fascin…
June 17, 2011
‘Real Newport’
Released 12th December 2006 by Ann Drysdale. Britain’s youngest city as you’ve never seen it before. Just another Victorian port or an Elizabethan maritime centre? A featureless South Wales town or a growing city on the verge of massive and original…
June 17, 2011
Ann Drysdale
Ann Drysdale is a prize-winning poet and former journalist on the South Wales Argus, with a wealth of knowledge of Newport and its people. Her ability to look at both from an oblique and humorous standpoint is unsurpassed. Books by Ann Drysdale Real…
June 17, 2011
‘Real Cardiff Two: The Greater City’
Published 14th November 2004 by Peter Finch. In the sequel to the hugely popular Real Cardiff, Peter Finch explores the city further, hunts for the legendary peripherique and discovers rubbish dumps, walled housing estates and dead-end lanes. He walk…
June 17, 2011
‘Real Cardiff’
Released 22nd July 2004. Peter Finch’s hugely popular alternative guide to the capital of Wales: “One of the best books I have ever read about a city.” Jan Morris. Peter Finch discovers the real Cardiff – lost rivers, itinerant poets, the old race co…
June 17, 2011
The Real Series
“Well-written and passionate, they’re all intriguing and full of offbeat observations… if you’re looking to get inside the character of any of these places, you’ll find the series perfect.” — Time Out
June 17, 2011
‘The Ivy Hides the Fig-ripe Duchess’
Seren is pleased to announce the newest poetry collection by Welsh writer Ellie Evans is released on 13th June 2011, head to the Seren website to get your copy today! The Ivy Hides the Fig-ripe Duchess is an exhilarating first collection of poems fro…
June 17, 2011
Ellie Evans
Ellie Evans was born in Carmarthen and was educated in Llandeilo and Cardiff. After reading English at Oxford, she worked in publishing and for the Medical Research Council, before living in Hong Kong, teaching English. She has spent most of her adu…
June 14, 2011
Book Launch – ‘Evan Walters: Moments of Vision’, Swansea
Join Seren for the Evan Walters: Moments of Vision book launch at the Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea. Evan Walters: Moments of Vision, which is edited by Barry Plummer, responds to the work of Evan Walters, who perhaps is the great hidden secret o…
