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May 13, 2011
The Captain’s Tower Blog
Editors of The Captain’s Tower: Seventy Poets Celebrate Bob Dylan at Seventy, Phil Bowen, Damian Furniss and David Woolley, have launched a blog dedicated to the Collection – http://thecaptainstowerdylanbook.blogspot.com All information and events r…
May 13, 2011
Graham Mort’s collection of short stories ‘Touch’ short-listed for the Edge Hill Prize
Graham Mort’s collection of short stories Touch has been short-listed for the Edge Hill University short story prize 2011. Touch includes the Bridport prize winning story ‘The Prince’, which was described by novelist Tracy Chevalier as “..the writing…
May 13, 2011
Seren Authors at the Hay Festival
A whole host of Seren authors will be appearing at this year’s Telegraph Hay Festival from 30th May to 4th June – Gwyneth Lewis, Niall Griffiths, Ken Elias, Ceri Thomas, Paul Henry, Mavis Nicholson, Peter J. Conradi and Grahame Davies. Book your tick…
May 12, 2011
Graham Mort’s collection of short stories ‘Touch’ short-listed for the Edge Hill Prize
Graham Mort’s collection of short stories Touch has been short-listed for the Edge Hill University short story prize 2011. Touch includes the Bridport prize winning story ‘The Prince’, which was described by novelist Tracy Chevalier as “..the writing…
May 11, 2011
John Haynes, Fiona Sampson and Tim Liardet, Lauderdale House, London
Thursday 12th May, 8.00 pm. Three Seren poets will be reading as part of the ‘Four Poets’ event at Lauderdale House in May. John Haynes, Fiona Sampson and Tim Liardet will be joined at the event by Carole Satyamurti. Tickets: £5.00/Concessions: Conce…
May 9, 2011
Bruce Cardwell launches Noteworthy: Images of Welsh Music
Bruce Cardwell launches his latest book Noteworthy: Images of Welsh Music at Pontardawe Arts Cenntre, Swansea. Noteworthy is one man’s view of the acoustic music scene in Wales, illustrated with black and white photography to present the musicians in…
May 6, 2011
Lorraine Bewsey: Olympians and Others exhibition at Cynon Valley and Gallery, Aberdare
Mavis Nicholson will be opening an exhibition of new work by portrait artist Lorraine Bewsey in the Cynon Valley Museum and Gallery in Aberdare at 7.00pm on Friday 6th May. Entitled ‘Olympians and Others’, the exhibition features the first set in a s…
May 5, 2011
First Thursday poetry reading tonight with Nerys Williams
Join Seren at Chapter Arts Centre tonight with guest poet Nerys Williams, who will be reading from her debut collection of poetry Sound Archive. Sound Archive is the strikingly original first collection of poems from Nerys Williams. Using formal stra…
April 27, 2011
Pascale Petit Exciting US Book Tour
Seren is proud to announce that Pascale Petit is touring What the Water Gave Me: Poems After Frida Kahlo in the US! Petit’s collection of poetry was shortlisted for the T.S Eliot Prize 2010 and long listed for Wales Book of the Year 2011. Petit’s iti…
April 20, 2011
Ronnie Wood writes a foreword for ‘The Captain’s Tower: Seventy Poets Celebrate Bob Dylan at Seventy’
Ronnie Wood has added a touch of rock ‘n’ roll to a future Seren publication, by writing a foreword for the eagerly awaited book The Captain’s Tower: Seventy Poets Celebrate Bob Dylan at Seventy. The book will be launched on Monday 13th June at the s…
April 15, 2011
Ruth Bidgood wins the Roland Mathias Prize 2011
Ruth Bidgood wins the Roland Mathias Prize 2011 with her collection of poetry Time Being, published by Seren (2009). The £3,000 prize was awarded to Ruth Bidgood at ceremony in Roland Mathias’ home town of Brecon, supported by BBC Wales and hosted by…
April 15, 2011
Pascale Petit Published in the US
Pascale Petit’s latest collection of poetry What the Water Gave Me: Poems after Frida Kahlo has now been published by Black Lawrence Press in the US (April, 2011). Pascale Petit is currently touring the US, she is reading at the Bowery Poetry Club, N…
