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April 23, 2021

Friday Poem – ‘The Reed Flute and I’ by Abeer Ameer

This week our Friday Poem is ‘The Reed Flute and I’ by Abeer Ameer from her debut collection Inhale/Exile. Abeer recently featured on an episode of the Babble podcast which can be listened to here. Abeer Ameer writes of her forebears in her first col…

April 16, 2021

Friday Poem – ‘Why the Brazilian Butt Lift Won’t Save Us’ by Tishani Doshi

This week’s Friday Poem is ‘Why the Brazilian Butt Lift Won’t Save Us’ by Tishani Doshi from her forthcoming Bloodaxe collection A God at the Door. Photo taken for Vogue India Tishani is taking part in an event at the Seren Cardiff Poetry Festival th…

April 9, 2021

Friday Poem – ‘On Allt yr Esgair’ by Christopher Meredith

This week’s Friday Poem is ‘On Allt yr Esgair’ by Christopher Meredith from his newly published poetry collection Still. In a unique publishing event, Still is published simultaneously with Christopher’s tragicomic short novel Please. Both are availa…

April 2, 2021

Friday Poem – ‘Slave Bangle, Wales’ by Maggie Harris

This week’s Friday Poem is ‘Slave Bangle, Wales’ by Maggie Harris from the pamphlet Poems from the Borders. Maggie recently won the Poetry Wales Wales Poetry Award judged by Pascale Petit. Poems from The Borders is part of Seren’s pamphlet series cel…

March 26, 2021

Friday Poem – ‘Remembrance of Things Past’ by Grahame Davies

This week’s Friday Poem is ‘Remembrance of Things Past’ by Grahame Davies from his collection Lightning Beneath the Sea which is currently £4.49 in our half-price spring sale. Earlier this week we launched Grahame’s new book Real Cambridge, the lates…

March 19, 2021

Friday Poems – ‘Penny’ and ‘Glasffrwd’ from TROEON : TURNINGS

This week we have two Friday Poems from TROEON : TURNINGS, the new bilingual collaboration between poets Philip Gross and Cyril Jones and artist Valerie Coffin Price. ‘Penny’ by Philip Gross and ‘Glasffrwd’ by Cyril Jones. To turn, to dig, to plough,…

March 17, 2021

Seren at 40 – In the beginning

This year we’re celebrating 40 years since Seren was established as Poetry Wales Press. In the first of a series of posts looking back at our history, founder Cary Archard shares an archive article written shortly after the press was first set up. “T…

March 12, 2021

Friday Poem – ’Hands’ by Elizabeth Parker

This week’s Friday Poem is ‘Hands’ by Elizabeth Parker from her debut collection In Her Shambles. Spiky, provocative, declamatory, these energetic poems sweep the reader along through their narratives. In Her Shambles introduces us to a poe…

March 8, 2021

Celebrating International Women’s Day

This International Women’s Day we’re showcasing books written by or about inspiring women. Find many more on our website. With over 250 contributors, this generous selection of poetry by women with an emphasis on twentieth-century poetry in English f…