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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…
November 5, 2019
‘Footnotes to Water’: An Interview with Zoë Skoulding
Zoë Skoulding is a poet, critic and translator who has lived in north Wales since 1991. She is the author of a number of poetry collections including The Museum of Disappearing Sounds (Seren), which was shortlisted for the Ted Hughes Award, and Remai…
November 1, 2019
Happy World Vegan Day!
Today marks the beginning of World Vegan Month and we couldn’t think of a better time to tell you that the re-print of The Occasional Vegan by Sarah Philpott is now in stock! To celebrate we’re giving you a sneak peak at the deliciousness that waits…
November 1, 2019
Friday Poem – ‘A Second Whisper’ by Lynne Hjelmgaard
This week’s Friday Poem is ‘A Second Whisper’ by Lynne Hjelmgaard from her new collection A Second Whisper. You can see videos of Lynne reading more poems from the collection on our Youtube channel. A Second Whisper is Lynne Hjelmgaard’s moving new c…
October 25, 2019
Friday Poem – ‘Gull Song’ by Zoë Skoulding
This week’s Friday Poem is ‘Gull Song’ by Zoë Skoulding from her new collection Footnotes to Water which is a Poetry Book Society Winter Recommendation. In Footnotes to Water poet Zoë Skoulding follows two forgotten rivers, the Adda in Bangor and th…
