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March 2, 2011
Martin Shipton new title ‘Poor Man Parliament’ – Are you YES or NO?
The referendum on the law-making powers of the National Assembly for Wales is tomorrow. Martin Shipton’s clever new title Poor Man’s Parliament is OUT now – will you be voting Yes or No? Poor Man’s Parliament explores why the hopes of 1999 too often…
February 22, 2011
Swansea-based author Roshi Fernando longlisted for prestigious Short Story Prize
Swansea-based author Roshi Fernando has been longlisted for a prestigious short story alongside the likes of Booker prize winner Hilary Mantel, Tibor Fischer and Susan Hill. Roshi, whose work was first anthologised by Seren, is in contention for the…
February 18, 2011
Nick Lambert’s interview on Wales this Week-Blitz
Nick Lambert, editor of the eagerly awaited Llandaff Cathedral, gave an interview on Wales this Week-Blitz. As Wales remember seventy years ago this week, Swansea became the first place outside London to suffer three consecutive night of bombing. Rai…
February 14, 2011
Martin Shipton launches ‘Poor Man’s Parliament’ at the Senedd
Martin Shipton will launch his brand new title Poor Man’s Parliament at the Senedd (National Assembly building). Wednesday 16th Feb 6pm – Media Briefing Room, Senedd 2011 is perhaps the most crucial year in the history of the National Assembly for Wa…
February 4, 2011
‘Hidden in our Brains?’ Anne Cluysenaar blog
When Simon Hicks sent on to me an email from Karen McDowell in New Zealand I was intrigued. This is what Karen had written: “I wonder if you could pass on my address to Anne Cluysenaar. I believe my mother (Muriel Paxton) was her first children’s nur…
February 1, 2011
New ‘First Thursday’ with Poetry Wales Purple Moose winner Graham Clifford
Seren’s poetry reading series ‘First Thursday’ is back. Join us at Chapter Arts Centre this Thursday, 3rd Feb for a ‘Poetry Wales Special’. Winner of the Poetry Wales ‘Purple Moose’ Competition, Graham Clifford is reading from his recently published…
January 26, 2011
Derek Walcott scoops T S Eliot Prize
Derek Walcott won the 2010 T S Eliot Prize for Poetry with White Egrets. The winner was chosen from a field of ten highly-regarded poets, two of whom were Pascale Petit and John Haynes, both published by Seren (2010). The judges of this year’s Prize,…
January 16, 2011
Peter Finch Receives the Ted Slade Award for Service to Poetry 2011
This years Ted Slade Award goes to Peter Finch, poet, critic and Chief Executive of Academi, the Welsh National Literature Promotion. The award is given annually to a person who is, in the opinion of the selection panel, has given unstintingly of…
January 12, 2011
TS Eliot Prize – shortlisted poets reading on Radio 4’s ‘Today’ Programme
All next week the BBC Radio 4’s Today programme will broadcast one poem by each of the ten poets on the TS Eliot Prize shortlist – listen out for Seren poets Pascale Petit (17th January) and John Haynes (24th January). They will also have a feature o…
December 9, 2010
EXCLUSIVE to Seren: New Stories from the Mabinogion Series – Limited Availability
THE GREATEST STORY EVER (RE) TOLD Seren are offering readers the chance to buy a limited edition set of signed copies of all the four novellas in the series to date, at a specially reduced price of £30.00 (£24, if you join our online bookclub)More d…
December 3, 2010
John Barnie launches scorching new title Fire Drill
John Barnie will launch his latest title Fire Drill: Notes on the Twenty-First Century, published by Seren. Hot off the press, it is sure to attract attention because of its hard hitting style. The ‘Green Room’, 41 John Street Porthcawl – Sustainabl…
November 30, 2010
Poem by Siobhan Campbell included in The Forward Book of Poetry 2011
‘When I asked my dad about Warrenpoint’ from Siobhan Campbell’s book Cross-Talk, has been chosen by the Forward judges for inclusion in The Forward Book of Poetry 2011 just out from Faber. This poem was first published by Bernard O’Donoghue in Oxfor…
