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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…
March 5, 2021
Friday Poem – ‘Green Ink’ by Abeer Ameer
This week’s Friday Poem is ‘Green Ink’ by Abeer Ameer from her debut collection Inhale/Exile. Abeer Ameer writes of her forebears in her first collection, Inhale/Exile. Dedicated to the “holders of these stories”, the book begins with a poem about a…
February 26, 2021
Friday Poem – ‘Fixative’ by Rosalind Hudis
This week’s Friday Poem is ‘Fixative’ by Rosalind Hudis from her new collection Restorations which was published earlier this week. Inspired by the art restorer’s keen eye and by a vivid empathy for people and events, Restorations, is a journey…
February 19, 2021
Friday Poem – ‘Ash’ by Robert Walton
This week’s Friday Poem is ‘Ash’ by Robert Walton from his collection Sax Burglar Blues. Sax Burglar Blues by Robert Walton is packed with memory, incident, observation, opinion, humour, outrage and elegy. Subjects include: woodlice, jazz, teachers,…
February 12, 2021
Friday Poem – ‘After Bonnefoy’ by Martyn Crucefix
This week’s Friday Poem is ‘After Bonnefoy’ by Martyn Crucefix from his collection The Lovely Disciplines. Everyone at Seren would like to congratulate Martyn on winning the Schlegel-Tieck Prize for Translation 2021 for his translation of These Numbe…
February 8, 2021
Queer’s the Word: Readings for LGBT+ History Month
Daryl Leeworthy, author of A Little Gay History of Wales and Elaine Morgan: A Life Behind the Screen, shares some of the top books you should be reading this LGBT+ History Month. Since the removal of Section 28 from the statute book in 2003, Britain’…
February 5, 2021
Friday Poem – ‘One Way’ by Katherine Stansfield
This week’s Friday Poem is ‘One Way’ 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 full of bo…
January 29, 2021
Friday Poem – ‘Black Jaguar at Midnight’ by Pascale Petit
Our Friday Poem this week is ‘Black Jaguar at Midnight’ by Pascale Petit from her 2014 collection Fauverie. Shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize 2014, this volume has childhood trauma and a dying father at its heart, and the poems skillfully transfor…
January 22, 2021
Friday Poem – ‘Dear Anne Monroe, Healthcare Assistant’ by Bryony Littlefair
This week’s Friday Poem is ‘Dear Anne Monroe, Healthcare Assistant’ by Bryony Littlefair from her Mslexia prize-winning pamphlet Giraffe. Poems need head, heart, and soul but this particular pamphlet has an extra ingredient – a feminist kick. There i…
January 15, 2021
Friday Poem – ‘Crocodile’ by Jonathan Edwards
This week’s Friday Poem is ‘Crocodile’ by Jonathan Edwards from his collection Gen. Gen is a book of lions and rock stars, street parties and servants, postmen and voices. In the opening sequence’s exploration of youth and young manhood, the author s…
January 8, 2021
Friday Poem – ‘The Dance of Ararat’ by Eoghan Walls
Our first Friday Poem of 2021 is ‘The Dance of Ararat’ by Eoghan Walls from his collection Pigeon Songs which was shortlisted for the Pigott Poetry Prize 2020. Pigeon Songs follows on from Walls’ much-praised debut, The Salt Harvest. From the first p…
January 6, 2021
Recipe: Swede Gratin with Miso & Maple Syrup by Sarah Philpott
Are you trying Veganuary this year? The 70 simple but delicious recipes in The Seasonal Vegan by Sarah Philpott are a great introduction to a vegan diet and there are plenty of comforting dishes in the winter section to get you through the colder mon…
