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February 3, 2023
Friday Poem – ‘Candlemas’ by Hilary Llewellyn-Williams
This week’s Friday Poem is ‘Candlemas’ by Hilary Llewellyn-Williams from her new and selected poems The Little Hours. The Little Hours: New and Selected Poems is a landmark volume which collects key poems from the career of Hilary Llewellyn-Williams,…
January 27, 2023
Friday Poem – ‘[ correspondence : another year ]’ by Sammy Weaver
This week’s Friday Poem is ‘[ correspondence : another year ]’ by Sammy Weaver from her pamphlet Angola, America which won the Mslexia Poetry Pamphlet Competition. Angola, America, winner of the Mslexia Poetry Pamphlet Competition 2021, takes its nam…
January 23, 2023
Seren partners with Inclusive Journalism Cymru to publish book of non-fiction essays
The essays written by members of Inclusive Journalism Cymru will reflect contemporary life in Wales.
January 20, 2023
Friday Poem – ‘The Winter Park’ by Paul Henry
This week’s Friday Poem is ‘The Winter Park’ by Paul Henry from his collection As If To Sing. The power of song, to sustain the human spirit, resonates through As if to Sing. A trapped caver crawls back through songs to the sea; Welsh soldiers pack t…
January 13, 2023
Friday Poem – ‘Consider’ by Angela Graham
This week’s Friday Poem is ‘Consider’ by Angela Graham from her collection Sanctuary: There Must Be Somewhere. Sanctuary is – urgent. The pandemic has made people crave it; political crises are denying it to millions; the earth is no longer our haven…
January 13, 2023
Half-price January Sale – now ended
This weekend, enjoy 50% of books across the Seren website
January 6, 2023
Friday Poem – ‘This Year’ by Ben Wilkinson
This week’s Friday Poem is ‘This Year’ by Ben Wilkinson from his collection Same Difference. Carefully crafted, and charged with contemporary language, the poems in Same Difference play with poetic voice and the dramatic monologue, keeping us on our…
December 30, 2022
Friday Poem – ‘Flamingo’ by Kathryn Bevis
This week’s Friday Poem is ‘Flamingo’ by Kathryn Bevis from her pamphlet of the same name. If you missed the online launch for Flamingo, you can watch it back now on our Youtube channel. Kathryn Bevis’s critically-acclaimed debut pamphlet Flamin…
December 23, 2022
Friday Poem – ‘Hide and Seek’ by Hannah Hodgson
This week’s Friday Poem is ‘Hide and Seek’ by Hannah Hodgson from her debut collection 163 Days which was recently longlisted for the Barbellion Prize. In her debut collection 163 Days Hannah Hodgson uses a panoply of medical, legal, and personal voc…
December 20, 2022
Hannah Hodgson longlisted for the Barbellion Prize
Hannah has been longlisted with her debut collection ‘163 Days’
December 16, 2022
Friday Poem – ‘White Poem’ by SL Grange
This week’s Friday Poem is ‘White Poem’ by SL Grange from their pamphlet bodies and other haunted houses which won the inaugural Poetry Wales Pamphlet Competition. The Poetry Wales Wales Poetry Award is currently open for entries for single poems unt…
December 9, 2022
Friday Poem – ‘How to renovate a Morris Minor’ by Jonathan Edwards
This week’s Friday Poem is ‘How to renovate a Morris Minor’ by Jonathan Edwards from his Costa Prize-winning collection My Family and Other Superheroes. Jonathan recently won the Troubadour International Poetry Prize 2022 with his poem ‘My Grandfathe…
