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October 9, 2020
Friday Poem – ‘In the Welsh National Museum’ by Dannie Abse
This week’s Friday Poem is ‘In the Welsh National Museum’ by Dannie Abse from his collection of selected poems Welsh Retrospective. Welsh Retrospective is a selection of poems about his native Wales by one of Britain’s most popular poets. Dannie Abse…
October 8, 2020
Tribute to Emyr Humphreys
Seren publisher Mick Felton pays tribute to great novelist Emyr Humphreys, who died on 30 September, at the age of 101.
October 2, 2020
Friday Poem – ‘Counting Boards’ by Rhian Edwards
This week’s Friday Poem is ‘Counting Boards’ by Rhian Edwards from her latest collection The Estate Agent’s Daughter. The Estate Agent’s Daughter is the eagerly awaited follow up to Rhian Edwards’s Wales Book of the Year winning debut collection Clue…
September 25, 2020
Friday Poem – ‘The Calling Basket’ by Sarah Wimbush
This week’s Friday Poem is ‘The Calling Basket’ by Sarah Wimbush from her pamphlet Bloodlines which won the Mslexia/ PBS Women’s Poetry Pamphlet Prize 2019. Bloodlines is an exploration of Sarah Wimbush’s own Gypsy/Traveller heritage, a journey made…
September 18, 2020
Friday Poem – ‘London, Forever Tired in Your Arms’ by Lynne Hjelmgaard
This week’s Friday Poem is ‘London, Forever Tired in Your Arms’ by Lynne Hjelmgaard from her collection A Second Whisper. A Second Whisper is Lynne Hjelmgaard’s moving new collection in which she looks back upon her life in New York, Demark, The Car…
September 14, 2020
Caroline Smith’s ‘The Immigration Handbook’ now available in Italian
The Immigration Handbook by Caroline Smith is now available in Italian.
September 14, 2020
Cath Drake and Tamar Yoseloff Highly Commended in the Forward Prizes
We are delighted that both Cath Drake and Tamar Yoseloff have been highly commended in this year’s Forward Prizes.
September 11, 2020
Friday Poem – ‘Little Black Dress’ by Tamar Yoseloff
This week’s Friday Poem is ‘Little Black Dress’ by Tamar Yoseloff from her collection The Black Place. Tamar was one of two Seren poets highly commended in this year’s Forward Prizes and her poem ‘The Black Place’ is featured in the Forward Book of P…
September 7, 2020
Robert Walton wins NAFOW Eisteddfod Poetry Competition
Robert Walton wins North American Festival of Wales Eisteddfod Poetry Competition with his poem ‘Alphabet’.
September 4, 2020
Friday Poem – ‘If I Could Wake’ by Cath Drake
Our Friday Poem this week is ‘If I Could Wake’ by Cath Drake from her debut collection The Shaking City. The shaking city of Australian poet Cath Drake’s debut poetry collection is a metaphor for the swiftly changing precarity of modern life within t…
August 28, 2020
Friday Poem – ‘Fires’ by André Mangeot
This week’s Friday Poem is ‘Fires’ by André Mangeot from his latest collection Blood Rain. Resonant, complex, rich in heft and texture, these are mature poems that grapple with serious themes. Beautifully crafted, and partly inspired by the poet’s lo…
August 26, 2020
Virtual First Thursday Returns
Virtual First Thursday returns for the autumn. Everyone welcome!
