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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…
November 29, 2010
‘First Thursday’ Poetry reading 2 December
Join Mike Jenkins Moor Music and Paul Henry The Brittle Sea at our final First Thursday poetry session of 2010. Followed by an Open Mic session for all poetry enthusiasts to showcase their work. 2nd December, 7.30pm. Media Point Room, Chapter Arts Ce…
November 23, 2010
Paul Henry goes in search of W.S. Graham, this Sunday on Radio 3
Poet Paul Henry presents a long-overdue celebration of one of the greatest 20th century poets, W.S. Graham, on Radio 3 this weekend. Sunday 28th November 21.30 to 22.15
November 22, 2010
Seren joins the celebrations for National Short Story Week
Seren joins the celebrations for National Short Story Week (22-28 Nov) by revisiting some great short stories collections, published over the last couple of years: Sing Sorrow Sorrow: Dark and Chilling Tales by Gwen Davies (ed.). Graham Mort Touch (2…
November 19, 2010
Pascale Petit recommends Women’s Work by Seren
TS Eliot Shortlisted poet Pascale Petit has recommended Seren title, Women’s Work edited by Eva Salzman & Amy Wack. In Inpress’s online newsletter, Petit chose four titles including Women’s Work. Petit whose latest title What the Water Gave Me: Poems…
November 15, 2010
Pascale Petit’s ‘What the Water Gave Me’ is a book of the year in the Observer
Pascale Petit’s What the Water Gave Me is a book of the year in the Observer. Jackie Kay (Novelist) writes “Pascale’s poems are as fresh as paint, and make you look all over again at Frida and her brilliant and tragic life”.
November 10, 2010
Roshi Fernando wins Impress Prize for New Writers
Roshi Fernando, a contributor to Seren’s latest horror book ‘Sing Sorrow Sorrow, Dark and Chilling Tales’ won the 2009 Impress Prize for New Writers. Award winning Roshi’s short story ‘Three Cuts’, a re-imagined Cinderella where an arranged marriage…
November 9, 2010
Paul Henry’s ‘The Black Guitar’ is The Guardian Blog’s ‘Poem of the Week’
Paul Henry’s The Black Guitar is The Guardian Blog’s ‘Poem of the Week’ where it is described as “a poem that includes lines that are barely lines from a poet with a beautiful economy to his writing”.
November 2, 2010
Mabinogion Series Launch
The Mabinogion Series Launch was celebrated in style at the St David’s Hotel Cardiff, with all four authors and an enthusiastic audience. Owen Sheers, Russell Celyn Jones, Niall Griffiths and Gwyneth Lewis read and discussed their contemporary adapta…
