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December 18, 2020
Friday Poem – ‘Owl Pellet Poem’ by Catherine Fisher
This week’s Friday Poem is ‘Owl Pellet Poem’ by Catherine Fisher from her collection The Bramble King. The Bramble King is full of darkly resonant tales, ingenious parables, curiously haunted rooms and palaces, and beautifully observed images of the…
December 14, 2020
Extract from ‘The Owl House’ by Daniel Butler
If you’re still looking for a last minute gift, you can’t go wrong with Daniel Butler’s new book The Owl House. This pastoral exploration of mid-Wales is beautifully observed, full of evocative observations that can only have been lived to have been…
December 11, 2020
Friday Poem – ‘After the Shock of your Photo on Facebook’ by Katrina Naomi
This week’s Friday Poem is ‘After the Shock of your Photo on Facebook’ by Katrina Naomi from her latest collection Wild Persistence. Wild Persistence by Katrina Naomi is a confident and persuasive collection of poems. Written following her move…
December 8, 2020
Short Story of the Month – ‘All Through the Night’ by Angela Graham
Our new short story of the month is ‘All Through the Night’ by Angela Graham from her debut short story collection A City Burning. A man looks back to the night his marriage reached its tipping-point on a cliff-top in west Wales. A city burns in…
December 4, 2020
Friday Poem – ‘Nativity’ by Jane Simmons
This week’s Friday Poem is ‘Nativity’ by Jane Simmons which is the winner of the 2020 Seren Christmas Poetry Competition. Judge Amy Wack said, “It was tight this year, any one of the shortlisted poems might have pipped it. In the end, I went for the…
December 3, 2020
Announcing the Seren Christmas Poetry Competition 2020 Shortlist
We’re delighted to announce the six poems which have been shortlisted for the Seren Christmas Poetry Competition 2020. The winner will be announced as our Friday poem tomorrow (4th December). ‘The Virgin Adoring The Sleeping Child Christ’ by Ellora S…
November 27, 2020
Friday Poem – ‘Weaving with Rushes’ by Sarah Wimbush
This week’s Friday Poem is ‘Weaving with Rushes’ by Sarah Wimbush from her debut pamphlet Bloodlines which has just been shortlisted for the Michael Marks Poetry Award 2020. Bloodlines is an exploration of Sarah Wimbush’s own Gypsy/Traveller her…
November 27, 2020
Sarah Wimbush shortlisted for Michael Marks Award
‘Bloodlines’ by Sarah Wimbush has been shortlisted for the Michael Marks Poetry Award 2020.
November 24, 2020
Kim Moore wins Ledbury Poetry Competition 2020
Congratulations to Kim Moore who won first prize in the Ledbury Poetry Competition 2020.
November 24, 2020
Two Seren poets highly commended in Troubadour International Poetry Prize 2020
We’re delighted to hear that Robert Walton and Abeer Ameer have been highly commended in the Troubadour International Poetry Prize 2020.
November 20, 2020
Friday Poem – Fold The River by Philip Gross
This week’s Friday Poem is ‘Fold The River’ by Philip Gross from A Fold in the River. A Fold in the River is the fruit of collaboration between T.S. Eliot prize-winning poet Philip Gross and the visual artist Valerie Coffin Price. Philip Gross once l…
November 13, 2020
Friday Poem – ‘I was born within the confines’ by Gabriel Chávez Casazola (translated by Richard Gwyn)
This week’s Friday Poem is ‘I was born within the confines’ by Gabriel Chávez Casazola (Bolivia) translated by Richard Gwyn for the anthology The Other Tiger: Recent Poetry from Latin America. The Other Tiger: Recent Poetry from Latin America is…
