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March 30, 2011
Graham Mort ‘Touch’ longlisted for Edge Hill Short Story Prize
Graham Mort’s book of Short Stories Touch, has been longlisted for the Edge Hill Short Story Prize. Touch, was published by Seren in 2010, is on this year’s long-list with an impressive range of award-winning writers. Touch includes a Bridport prize-…
March 29, 2011
Pascale Petit at Cheltenham Poetry Festival
Pascale Petit will be reading from What the Water Gave Me, at the Cheltenham Poetry Festival. A poetry collection containing fifty-two poems in the voice of the Mexican painter Frida Kahlo. Some of the poems are close interpretations of Kahlo’s work,…
March 25, 2011
Bruce Cardwell
Bruce Cardwell’s connection with horses goes back to his childhood in Ireland. A long career in the world of the horse includes work with organisations as various as William Hill and the National Trust, a stud farm in the Cotswolds, a millionaire’s…
March 25, 2011
‘Noteworthy’
Noteworthy Author: Bruce Cardwell Music makers are the focus of Bruce Cardwell latest book of black and white reportage and portrait photography. Practitioners of acoustic and vocal music – folk, gospel, opera, choral, classical and ethnic – in Wales…
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…
