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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…
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…
