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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…
April 15, 2011
‘What the Water Gave Me: Poems after Frida Khalo’
Author: Pascale Petit SHORTLISTED FOR THE T.S ELIOT PRIZE 2010 LONG LISTED FOR WALES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2011 “Pascale’s poems are as fresh as paint, and make you look all over again at Frida and her brilliant and tragic life.” Jackie Kay, The Observer…
April 15, 2011
Petit Long Listed for Wales Book of the Year 2011
Pascale Petit’s collection of poetry What the Water Gave Me: Poems after Frida Kahlo has been long listed for the Wales Book of the Year 2011. What the Water Gave Me contains fifty-two poems in the voice of the Mexican painter Frida Kahlo. Some of th…
April 15, 2011
‘Understudies: New and Selected Poems’
Anne-Marie Fyfe – as is apparent in her Understudies: New and Selected Poems – is a subtle and engaging poet. She has developed much like a painter, spare themes moving towards a deeper complexity. Her earlier work includes quite a few domestic inter…
April 15, 2011
‘Interstate’ Poem of the Week by Guardian Books
Author Anne-Marie Fyfe has had her poem ‘Interstate’ elected as poem of the week by Guardian Books Blog! ‘Interstate’ is taken from Fyfe’s 2010 collection Understudies: New and Selected Poems (available from Seren). Carol Rumens, from the Guardian, s…
April 15, 2011
Anne-Marie Fyfe
Anne-Marie Fyfe was born in Ireland and now lives in West London. A poet, creative-writing tutor, arts organiser (of the well-known Troubadour club events in London), she was recently Chair of the Poetry Society. She has read throughout the world at…
April 14, 2011
Pascale Petit longlisted for Wales Book of the Year 2011
Pascale Petit’s collection of poetry What the Water Gave Me: Poems after Frida Kahlo has been long listed for the Wales Book of the Year 2011. What the Water Gave Me contains fifty-two poems in the voice of the Mexican painter Frida Kahlo. Some of th…
April 10, 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 7, 2011
Book Submissions
Thinking of submitting your work to Seren? Read our Updated Submissions Policy first. Submissions Policy 2011 Seren publishes between twenty and twenty-five new titles a year across its list. Fiction currently accounts for five or six titles and poet…
