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June 9, 2011
The Captain’s Tower: Poems for Bob Dylan at 70 – The Troubadour, London
Monday 13th June, 8.00pm. Almost 50 years after the 21-year-old Bob Dylan’s subterranean, homesick, Troubadour-cellar-club debut in 1962 – his first performance this side of the Atlantic – an unmissable gathering of London’s best-known poets meets to…
June 6, 2011
Grahame Davies at the National Library of Wales
The Dragon and the Crescent: Nine Centuries of Welsh contact with Islam. Wednesday 8th June 1.15 – 2.15pm National Library’s Drwm venue Welsh author and poet, Dr Grahame Davies, examines Wales’s relationship with Islam. The presentation is held in co…
May 27, 2011
The Hay Festival
Its Hay time! Seren have a number of authors speaking at Hay this week: Mavis Nicholson talks to Sarah Crompton (What did you do in the War, Mummy?) Thursday 2nd June 2011 6.45pm Brenda Maddox, Peter J Conradi and Tom Bullough (At the Bright Hem of G…
May 23, 2011
The Poet Laureate presents ‘Poetry Cuts’ in support of the Poetry Book Society
The Poetry Society has recently heard that the Arts Council will withdraw its regualr funding. The Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy has invited 30 fellow poets to take part in an evening celebrating the best of contemporary British poetry to benefit the…
May 20, 2011
Bruce Cardwell Exhibition at Swansea all of May
Bruce Cardwell’s Noteworthy: Images of Welsh Music project is on exhibition at Pontardawe Arts Centre, Swansea, all of May. To find out more about Bruce Cardwell and Noteworthy click on the ‘Bruce Cardwell’ tag or read more on our website – www.seren…
May 20, 2011
Nerys Williams Reads From ‘Sound Archive’
Nerys Williams will read from her first poetry collection, Sound Archive, at The Boar House, Laugharne, Monday 23rd May 2011 7pm. To find out more about Nerys Williams the author and her first poetry collection published by Seren, click the tagged ‘N…
May 20, 2011
Nia Williams, ‘The Colour of Grass’, Book Signing
Nia Williams author of new fantastic novel, The Colour of Grass, is holding a book signing at Waterstones in Cardiff on Saturday 21st May 2011 at 1pm. To find out more about Nia Williams the author or the novel’s synopsis, there is information on he…
May 20, 2011
Pascale Petit Shortlisted for Wales Book of the Year 2011
Pascale Petit has been shortlisted for Wales Book of the Year 2011 for her latest collection What the Water Gave Me: Poems after Frida Kahlo. Literature Wales announced the 2011 shortlist in both Caernarfon and Cardiff. Pascale Petit, who was born in…
May 20, 2011
Pascale Petit shortlisted for Wales Book of the Year 2011
Pascale Petit has been shortlisted for Wales Book of the Year 2011 for her latest collection What the Water Gave Me: Poems after Frida Kahlo. Literature Wales announced the 2011 shortlist in both Caernarfon and Cardiff. Pascale Petit, who was born in…
May 18, 2011
Grahame Davies is guest on ‘All Things Considered’ show – BBC Radio Wales
Seren author Grahame Davies speaks to Roy Jenkins from BBC Radio Wales show All Things Considered, about his new book The Dragon and the Crescent: Nine Centuries of Welsh Contact with Islam. In the early twenty-first century, the relationship between…
May 13, 2011
The Captain’s Tower: Seventy Poets to Celebrate Bob Dylan at Seventy
Finally the day has come! Fresh from the printers – copies of Seren’s new poetry collection – Bob Dylan’s poems have arrived! The collection is available to pre-order from our website -www.serenbooks.com – in anticipation for its release on May 23rd…
May 13, 2011
‘The Captain’s Tower’: St Ives
Tonight, Friday 3rd May, at 8pm there is an event being held at, St Ives Arts Club, Westcotts Quay, St Ives, Cornwall. The three editors, Phil Bowen, Damian Furniss and David Woolley, will be present along with live entertainment. For more informatio…
