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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…
April 7, 2011
Meet the Team
Mick Felton, Publisher Mick Felton has over thirty years experience in publishing and the book trade and has been representing, managing and editing at Seren for many of them. He is a former Trustee of the Poetry Society and has a longstanding intere…
April 6, 2011
David Hurn and John Fuller – Cardiff
David Hurn and John Fuller present Writing the Picture at Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff. Writing the Picture is a rare collaboration between a leading photographer and an eminent poet. Even more rare, it is a collaboration in which the poet responds t…
April 4, 2011
Nia Williams ‘The Colour of Grass’ Book Launch
Join Nia Williams for the launch of her latest novel The Colour of Grass. Who did she think she was? Helen’s family is falling apart. There will be no answers from her husband anymore and she can’t communicate with her grown-up daughter. She’s not su…
April 1, 2011
Nerys Williams
Originally from Pen-Y-Bont, Carmarthen in West Wales, Nerys Williams has published her original first collection of poetry Sound Archive (2011) with Seren. Nerys is a native Welsh speaker and had worked as a Sound Librarian at BBC Wales and is a reci…
