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November 10, 2021
Seren Christmas Gift Guide 2021
Our gift guide returns for 2021 with loads of great new recommendations. From old favourites to brand new books that are hot off the press, find something for everyone this Christmas. Bar 44 Tapas y Copas by Owen and Tom Morgan Bar 44 Tapas y Copas i…
November 5, 2021
Friday Poem – ‘For a Coming Extinction’ by Pascale Petit
As COP26 continues in Glasgow, this week’s Friday Poem is ‘For a Coming Extinction’ by Pascale Petit which features in the anthology 100 Poems to Save the Earth. Our climate is on the brink of catastrophic change. 100 Poems to Save the Earth invites…
November 4, 2021
Guest Post: COP26 – Kristian Evans on poetry & the climate crisis
Today’s guest post is by Kristian Evans, co-editor of the landmark anthology 100 Poems to Save the Earth – vital reading as world leaders meet in Glasgow for COP26. Our climate is on the brink of catastrophic change. 100 Poems to Save the Earth…
November 1, 2021
Bar 44 Tapas y Copas: A tasty first look…
In this post, we’re bringing you a tasty first look at the highly anticipated Bar 44 Tapas y Copas cookbook which is publishing 8th November. Whether you’re meeting up with friends or enjoying a romantic night in, this delicious recipe for…
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…
