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October 29, 2021
Friday Poem – ‘Beware Welsh Learners’ by Katherine Stansfield
This week’s Friday Poem is ‘Beware Welsh Learners’ by Katherine Stansfield from her collection We Could Be Anywhere By Now. In her second collection, We Could Be Anywhere by Now, Katherine Stansfield brings us poems about placement and displacement f…
October 25, 2021
Guest Post – Polly Atkin: On Co-Tenancy 
In Much With Body I wanted to write into and around the relationship between us – as individuals, as humans – and the ecosystems we live in. I wanted explore to what Sarah Jaquette Ray and Jay Sibara call the ‘contingency between environments and bod…
October 22, 2021
Friday Poem – ‘What We Found in the Arctic, or, the Geopolitics of New Natural Resources Uncovered by Melted Ice’ by Carolyn Jess-Cooke
This week’s Friday Poem is ‘What We Found in the Arctic, or, the Geopolitics of New Natural Resources Uncovered by Melted Ice’ by Carolyn Jess-Cooke from her new collection We Have To Leave The Earth. Carolyn Jess-Cooke’s new poetry collection is bot…
October 15, 2021
Friday Poem – ‘Lakeclean’ by Polly Atkin
This week’s Friday Poem is ‘Lakeclean’ by Polly Atkin from her latest collection Much With Body which is a Poetry Book Society Winter Choice. Much With Body is the startlingly original second collection by poet Polly Atkin. The beauty of the Lak…
October 8, 2021
Friday Poem – ‘6. That a man approached you in a nightclub’ by Kim Moore
This week’s Friday Poem is ‘6. That a man approached you in a nightclub’ by Kim Moore from her new collection All The Men I Never Married. All The Men I Never Married, Kim Moore’s eagerly awaited second collection, is pointedly feminist, challenging…
October 8, 2021
Seren Poetry Editor Amy Wack announces her retirement
A message from our Poetry Editor Amy Wack.
October 1, 2021
Friday Poem – ‘The Romantic’ by Katrina Naomi
This week’s Friday Poems is ‘The Romantic’ by Katrina Naomi from her collection The Way the Crocodile Taught Me. Katrina recently won first place in the Keats-Shelley Poetry Prize with her poem ‘in the kelp forest’. Watch the winner announcement and…
September 24, 2021
Friday Poem – ‘Even in dreamscapes‘ by Christopher Meredith
This week’s Friday Poem is ‘Even in dreamscapes’ by Christopher Meredith from his most recent collection Still. Christopher Meredith’s new poetry collection Still, uses the title word as a fulcrum to balance various paradoxical concerns: st…
September 17, 2021
Friday Poem – ‘How I Hold the World in This Climate Emergency’ by Cath Drake
Our Friday Poem this week is ‘How I Hold the World in This Climate Emergency’ by Cath Drake from her debut collection The Shaking City, which is longlisted for The Laurel Prize 2021. The shaking city of Australian poet Cath Drake’s debut poetry colle…
September 14, 2021
Cath Drake’s Debut longlisted for The Laurel Prize
Cath Drake’s ‘The Shaking City’ has been longlisted for The Laurel Prize.
September 10, 2021
Friday Poem – ‘Bocca della Verita’ by Robert Seatter
This week’s Friday Poem is ‘Bocca della Verita’ by Robert Seatter from his new collection The House of Everything. The poems in this collection are all inspired by artefacts and spaces in Sir John Soane’s Museum. Sir John Soane was born on this day i…
September 8, 2021
Dates announced for the launches of Bar 44 Tapas y Copas
Join us in Cardiff and Bristol for the launches of Bar 44 Tapas y Copas
