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December 20, 2019
Friday Poem – ‘Noticing Cards While Eating Stuffing’ by Cathy Bryant
This week’s Friday Poem is ‘Noticing Cards While Eating Stuffing’ by Cathy Bryant from the pamphlet Twelve Poems for Christmas. This sparkling selection of Christmas poems is the perfect stocking filler for any poetry addict. These are poems full of…
December 13, 2019
Friday Poem – ‘Sea-Front House’ by Anne-Marie Fyfe
This week’s Friday Poem is ‘Sea-Front House’ by Anne-Marie Fyfe from her new book No Far Shore: Charting Unknown Waters. No Far Shore by Anne-Marie Fyfe is no ordinary exploration of coastlines. She combines travel writing, history, memoir and poetry…
December 12, 2019
‘No Far Shore’: An Interview with Anne-Marie Fyfe
No Far Shore by Anne-Marie Fyfe is no ordinary exploration of coastlines. She combines travel writing, history, memoir and poetry in an intriguing meditation on the sea, the land, and the maps, lighthouses, islands, north, journeys and other things…
December 10, 2019
Seren Gift Guide: Give the Perfect Gift this Christmas
We all have them. That one person in the family who is impossible to buy presents for. They’re very particular so food or alcohol is out of the question and you bought them novelty socks last year so what are you going to do? Buy them a book of cours…
December 10, 2019
Seren Christmas Pop-up Shop Returns to Chapter!
From the 16 – 20 December our Christmas pop-up shop will be back at Chapter in Cardiff to satisfy all your last minute present buying needs. You’re guaranteed to find something for everyone amongst the books on sale so come along and have a browse. F…
December 10, 2019
Seren Christmas Pop-up Shop returns to Chapter!
From the 16 – 20 December our Christmas pop-up shop will be back at Chapter in Cardiff to satisfy all your last minute present buying needs.
December 6, 2019
Friday Poem – ‘Driving Home’ by Christine Evans
Our Friday Poem this week is ‘Driving Home’ by Christine Evans, from our regional pamphlet Poems from Snowdonia. Poems from Snowdonia is part of Seren’s pamphlet series celebrating the spirit of place. The dramatic mountain ranges of the Snowdonia Na…
November 29, 2019
Friday Poem – ‘Bus Station’ by Sheenagh Pugh
Our Friday Poem this week is ‘Bus Station’ by Sheenagh Pugh, from her latest collection Afternoons Go Nowhere. A fascination for history, both as a source of human drama and a field for artful speculation, characterises this collection of poems by Sh…
November 22, 2019
Friday Poem – ‘Body Language’ by Tamar Yoseloff
This week’s Friday Poem is ‘Body Language’ by Tamar Yoseloff from her new collection The Black Place. You can watch video interviews of Tamar reading from and talking about the collection on our Youtube channel. The Black Place is a dark and gorgeous…
November 15, 2019
Friday Poem – ‘Our Mothers’ Bodies’ by Alexandra Ford
This week’s Friday Poem is ‘Our Mothers’ Bodies’ by Alexandra Ford. Alexandra’s debut novel What Remains at the End was published last month. In the aftermath of World War II, hundreds of thousands of Yugoslavia’s ethnic Germans, the Danube Swabians,…
November 14, 2019
Katrina Naomi shares her poetry advice
This week’s poetry advice blog comes from Katrina Naomi author of The Way the Crocodile Taught Me. Katrina is a poet, tutor, critic, mentor and translator who lives in Cornwall. Her poetry has appeared on Radio 4’s Front Row and Poetry Please, BBC TV…
November 8, 2019
Friday Poem – ‘What’s the Welsh for ‘Fire-Cracker’?’ by Marc Evans
This week’s Friday Poem is ‘What’s the Welsh for ‘Fire-Cracker’?’ by Marc Evans. Marc is a regular attendee of our First Thursday evenings which happen once a month at Chapter Arts Centre in Cardiff. He read this poem in the open mic session a few mo…
