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April 3, 2020
Friday Poem – ‘Iaith / llaeth’ by Katherine Stansfield
This week’s Friday Poem is ‘Iaith / llaeth’ by Katherine Stansfield from her new 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…
April 2, 2020
Guest Post: Cath Drake – Inside the shaking city
Cath Drake’s debut poetry collection The Shaking City is due to be published on the 14th April. In today’s guest post, she reflects on its unexpected comfort given the situation we find ourselves in. Inside the shaking city “… a guide to staying clea…
March 27, 2020
Friday Poem – ‘Summerhouse’ by Martyn Crucefix
This week’s Friday Poem is ‘Summerhouse’ by Martyn Crucefix from his collection The Lovely Disciplines. Displaying his characteristic flair, craft and intelligence, Crucefix’s poems often begin with the visible, the tangible, the ordinary, yet throug…
March 26, 2020
Robert Minhinnick’s latest novel ‘Nia’ longlisted for the RSL Ondaatje Prize.
Robert Minhinnick’s latest novel Nia has been longlisted for the RSL Ondaatje Prize.
March 25, 2020
Guest Post – Katrina Naomi: One week in
Today we have a guest post from poet Katrina Naomi who shares some of the things she has been doing to keep positive during this strange time. One week in It’s been a week since I had to abandon a holiday at my sister’s to come back home to Cornwall….
March 20, 2020
Friday Poem – ’The Voice in which my Mother Read to Me’ by Jonathan Edwards
With it being Mother’s Day this Sunday, this week’s Friday Poem is ’The Voice in which my Mother Read to Me’ by Jonathan Edwards from his Costa- award winning first collection My Family and Other Superheroes. My Family and Other Superheroes features…
March 18, 2020
Support your local independent bookshops
As we all become accustomed to our new circumstances in what is set to be a challenging and unpredictable few months, books have the power to help us escape. Let’s use this as an opportunity to reconnect with literature. We are fortunate enough to li…
March 17, 2020
Business as usual
Seren continues to operate as usual despite the office being closed. All staff are available via email and our books are all available online. Keep safe, The Seren Team
March 13, 2020
Friday Poem – ‘The Bittern’ by Sarah Wimbush
Our Friday Poem this week is ‘The Bittern’ by Sarah Wimbush from her new pamphlet Bloodlines which won the Mslexia/PBS Women’s Poetry Pamphlet Competition 2019. Bloodlines is an exploration of Sarah Wimbush’s own Gypsy/Traveller heritage, a journey m…
March 11, 2020
Sarah Wimbush wins the Mslexia/PBS Women’s Poetry Pamphlet Competition 2019
We are delighted to be publishing Sarah Wimbush’s pamphlet Bloodlines today after it was selected by Amy Wack as the winner of the Mslexia/PSB Women’s Poetry Pamphlet Competition 2019
March 8, 2020
Happy International Women’s Day 2020!
Over the year’s we’ve been fortunate enough to work with a long list of fantastic female authors, all of whom bring something unique to the Seren list. There are too many to mention each by name in a single post, and so for International Women’s Day…
March 6, 2020
Friday Poem – ‘I know Exactly the Sort of Woman I’d Like to Fall in Love With’ by Deryn Rees-Jones
This Sunday (8th March) is International Women’s Day so this week we bring you the poem ‘I know Exactly the Sort of Woman I’d Like to Fall in Love With’ by Deryn Rees-Jones which is featured the Women’s Work anthology but was first published in Deryn…
