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April 17, 2019
Short Story of the Month | ‘A Legend of Flight’, Kate Kelly
Our new Short Story of the Month is ‘A Legend of Flight’ by Kate Kelly. ‘The night you didn’t answer. I tried to call but each time your phone rang for a while, then went to voicemail. I didn’t leave a message. I’d already texted you twice…’ A grou…
April 12, 2019
Friday Poem – ‘Tenby Shores’, David Foster-Morgan
Our Friday Poem this week is ‘Tenby Shores’ by David Foster-Morgan. Poems from Pembrokeshire is part of Seren’s pamphlet series celebrating the spirit of place. An area of supreme but also disquieting beauty, Pembrokeshire has been the home to saints…
April 5, 2019
Friday Poem – ‘St. David’s Hall’, Peter Finch
This week’s poem is Peter Finch’s surreal night out at ‘St. David’s Hall’. Poems from Cardiff is part of Seren’s pamphlet series celebrating the spirit of place. It opens with a view from the Bay where “the sea wrestles the Severn”. We also find ours…
March 29, 2019
Friday Poem – ‘Spring Tide’, Paul Deaton
The clocks jump forward this weekend, signalling the start of British Summer Time – but before that, we have Paul Deaton’s ‘Spring Tide’ as our Friday Poem this week. Paul Deaton’s debut, A Watchful Astronomy, is a book of beautifully clear and power…
March 22, 2019
Friday Poem – ‘Armadillo’, Jane Lovell
Our Friday Poem this week is ‘Armadillo’ by Jane Lovell, from her Mslexia Prize-winning pamphlet, This Tilting Earth. Jane Lovell’s poems are both beautiful and disturbing. A deep feeling for the natural world is aligned with an acute lyric sensibi…
March 15, 2019
Friday Poem – ‘Arcades’, Paul Henry
Our new quartet of regional poetry pamphlets have just arrived, with each celebrating a special place in Wales: its people, landscape, wildlife, and vibrant goings-on. This week our Friday Poem comes from Poems from Cardiff, our tribute to the Capita…
March 8, 2019
Friday Poem(s) – 3 Poems for International Women’s Day
For our celebration of International Women’s Day, we’ve selected not one Friday Poem but three – each offering a different perspective, and each representing a different stage in a woman’s life. ‘Home Birth’ by Carolyn Jess-Cooke, from Boom! T…
March 7, 2019
Short Story of the Month | ‘Flowers’, Emma Timpany
It’s World Book Day today and we have a new story for you to enjoy – Emma Timpany’s ‘Flowers’ is our Short Story of the Month. ‘This is the place: four fields in the shape of a rough parallelogram…’ Searching for a space to plant the seeds of her f…
March 1, 2019
Friday Poem – ‘Perspective’, Damian Walford Davies
It’s 1st March – Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Sant Hapus (or Happy St David’s Day) to you! This Welsh holiday has been celebrated since the 12th Century, and honours Wales’ patron saint. On such a historic holiday it seems fitting to consider Wales’ history, and o…
February 22, 2019
Friday Poem – ‘The World at One’, Kate Bingham
Today in the TLS you’ll find a new poem by Kate Bingham – ‘The Sound I have’. For our Friday Poem we also have one of Kate’s poems, though for us its one taken from Infragreen: ‘The World at One’. Infragreen is full of poems that are perceptive, pers…
February 15, 2019
Friday Poem – ‘Angry Birds’, Eoghan Walls
This week our Friday Poem is the opening number from Eoghan Walls’ forthcoming second collection, Pigeon Songs – ‘Angry Birds’. Pigeon Songs follows on from Walls’ much-praised debut, The Salt Harvest. From the first poem, we have a sense of the poet…
February 1, 2019
Friday Poem – ‘Vésuve, 1857’, Yvonne Reddick
With just a week to go before the start of our Seren Cornerstone Poetry Festival, our Friday Poem is from of the authors performing – Yvonne Reddick. ‘Vésuve 1857’ is taken from her Mslexia Prize-winning pamphlet, Translating Mountains. The poems of …
