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March 25, 2011
Bruce Cardwell Launches Noteworthy – Machynlleth
Bruce Cardwell will exhibit a selection of pictures from the Noteworthy: Images of Welsh Music project at Moma Wales. Mavis Nicholson will open the exhibition at 12pm Saturday 2nd April 2011. Bruce Cardwell will then celebrate the publication of Note…
March 25, 2011
Grahame Davies
Grahame Davies is a poet and a critic in Welsh and English, and is a winner of the Wales Book of the Year Award. His work includes the novel, Everything Must Change, and The Chosen People, an anthology about Wales and Judaism. He has a PhD from Cardi…
March 25, 2011
‘The Dragon and the Crescent’
The Dragon and the Crescent Author: Grahame Davies Seren’s newest publication due for release on 30th April 2011. In the early twenty-first century, the relationship between the West and Islam has, due to recent political events, become the subject…
March 23, 2011
Nerys Williams debut poetry collection ‘Sound Archive’
Sound Archive by Nerys Williams has arrived into the Seren office this morning. A striking original first collection of poems from Nerys Williams. Using formal strategies similar to modernist painting: abstraction, dislocation, surrealist juxtapositi…
March 21, 2011
WIN a proof copy of Tony Bianchi’s latest novel ‘Daniel’s Beetles’
We are giving away 5 proof copies of Tony Bianchi’s latest novel Daniel’s Beetles, 10 weeks before official publication. Daniel’s Beetles is the author’s translation of his prizewinning Welsh novel, Pryfeta. Daniel’s Beetles is an absorbing, unnervin…
March 18, 2011
Ruth Bidgood
Ruth Bidgood was born in Blaendulais, near Neath, educated at Oxford, and worked as a coder in Alexandria, Egypt in World War Two. She has lived in mid-Wales since the mid-sixties. The author of several prize-winning volumes of poetry, she also write…
March 18, 2011
The Roland Mathias Prize 2011
SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROLAND MATHIAS PRIZE Seren author Ruth Bidgood has been shortlisted for the Roland Mathias Prize 2011. The event which will take place 7.oopm Friday 8th April, The Guildhall Brecon, recognises works published in the fields of poet…
March 18, 2011
David Hurn
David Hurn was born in England in 1934 of Welsh parentage. It was as a freelancer that he gained an international reputation for his reportage of the Hungarian Revolution in 1956. He later gave up current-affairs coverage for a more personal perspect…
March 18, 2011
John Fuller
John Fuller is a prize-winning poet and novelist. The author of eighteen collections of poems, most recently Pebble and I (2010), his work is known for a strong humanistic civic note and a formal skill, both of which are to the fore in Writing the Pi…
March 18, 2011
David Hurn and John Fuller present ‘Writing the Picture’
Join Seren in celebrating Writing the Picture with authors David Hurn and John Fuller Thursday April 7th 2011, Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff, 7.30pm and Tuesday 12th April 2011 at the Drill Hall, Chepstow. Admission £2.00, redeemable against purchase…
March 18, 2011
Clare Dudman
Clare Dudman was born in North Wales. She has a PhD in Chemistry and has worked as a postdoctoral Research Associate in UMIST, a development scientist in industry, a science teacher, a lecturer and as a creative writing tutor for the WEA and the MA i…
March 18, 2011
Nia Williams
Nia Williams is a freelance author and musician, living in Oxford and originally from Cardiff. She is the author of two other novels, The Pier Glass and Persons Living or Dead, which was longlisted for Wales Book of the Year and her short stories hav…
