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September 16, 2022
Friday Poem – ‘The meaning of employable’ by Bryony Littlefair
This week’s Friday Poem is ‘The meaning of employable’ by Bryony Littlefair from her forthcoming debut collection Escape Room which will be published on National Poetry Day. Escape Room is the long-awaited debut collection by Bryony Littlefair. This…
September 16, 2022
Coming Soon: The Seren Poetry Podcast
On 6th October 2022 we’re launching The Seren Poetry Podcast.
September 9, 2022
Friday Poem – ‘Prayer’ by Grahame Davies
This week’s Friday Poem is ‘Prayer’ by Grahame Davies from his collection Lightning Beneath the Sea. Lightning Beneath the Sea is the first collection of poems in English by Grahame Davies, featuring the work that he has honed over the years as he ha…
September 2, 2022
Friday Poem – ‘[ search ]’ by Sammy Weaver
This week’s Friday Poem is ‘[ search ]’ by Sammy Weaver from her pamphlet Angola, America which won this year’s Mslexia Poetry Pamphlet Prize. Angola, America, winner of the Mslexia Poetry Pamphlet Prize 2021, takes its name from a prison in Louisian…
September 1, 2022
Sammy Weaver wins Mslexia Poetry Pamphlet Prize
Weaver’s pamphlet Angola, America immerses us in the frightening world of a prison in Louisiana.
August 26, 2022
Friday Poem – ‘Navigation Points’ by Emily Blewitt
This week’s Friday Poem is ‘Navigation Points’ by Emily Blewitt from her collection This Is Not A Rescue. In This Is Not A Rescue we are introduced to a poet whose voice is fresh and striking, who writes both forcefully and tenderly about refusing to…
August 23, 2022
Polly Atkin Longlisted for the Laurel Prize 2022
Polly’s collection ‘Much With Body’ is longlisted alongside 20 other titles
August 19, 2022
Friday Poem – ‘Case History’ by Christine Evans
This week’s Friday Poem is ‘Case History’ by Christine Evans, also from A Last Respect: The Roland Mathias Prize Anthology for Contemporary Welsh Poetry. A Last Respect celebrates the Roland Mathias Prize, awarded to outstanding poetry books by…
August 12, 2022
Friday Poem – ‘A Marriage’ by Dannie Abse, CBE
This week’s Friday Poem is ‘A Marriage’ by Dannie Abse, from A Last Respect: The Roland Mathias Prize of Contemporary Welsh Poetry. A Last Respect celebrates the Roland Mathias Prize, awarded to outstanding poetry books by authors from Wales. It…
August 5, 2022
Friday Poem – ‘A Flock of Young Birds’ by Hilary Llewellyn-Williams
This week’s Friday Poem is ‘A Flock of Young Birds’ by Hilary Llewellyn-Williams from her new book The Little Hours: New and Selected Poems. The Little Hours: New and Selected Poems is a landmark volume which collects key poems from the career of Hil…
July 22, 2022
Friday Poem – ‘The Park in the Afternoon’ by Dai George
This week’s Friday Poem is ‘The Park in the Afternoon’ by Dai George from his collection Karaoke King. Dai George’s confident second collection Karaoke King, addresses the contentious nature of the times. Always deeply thoughtful but also altern…
July 15, 2022
Friday Poem – Page 35 from ‘Witch’ by Damian Walford Davies
This week’s Friday Poem is taken from Witch by Damian Walford Davies. This continuous narrative poem conjures a thrilling portrait of a Suffolk village in the throes of the witchcraft hunts of the mid-seventeenth century. With the narrative pull of a…
