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The British Book Awards Small Press of the Year Regional and Country Finalist Wales.

February 24, 2025

We’re a finalist for Small Press of the Year

We’re delighted to be a Wales country finalist for Small Press of the Year 2025.

Photo of a light house flashing across the rock in the night.

February 21, 2025

Friday Poem – ‘The Migration of Ghosts’ by Maggie Harris

This week’s Friday Poem is ‘The Migration of Ghosts’ by Maggie Harris from her collection ‘I Sing to the Greenhearts’.

Close up photo of cassette tapes laid out on a table.

February 19, 2025

Guest post: Emily Cotterill – Now That’s What I Call ‘Significant Wow’

Emily Cotterill muses on the musical influences which have shaped her as a person and a poet.

Photo of a golden hour sun setting over distant hazy hills.

February 14, 2025

Friday Poem – ‘The Golden Hour’ by Lorcán Black

This week’s Friday Poem is ‘The Golden Hour’ by Lorcán Black from his collection ‘Strange Husbandry’.

Close-up photo of a glass porch light shining in the dark.

February 7, 2025

Friday Poem – ‘Porch-light’ by Ruth Bidgood

This week’s Friday Poem is ‘Porch-light’ by Ruth Bidgood from her collection ‘Time Being’.

Photo depicting the ruined wall and empty window of a crumbling building

January 31, 2025

Friday Poem – ‘Sir John Soane imagines the Ruins of His yet-to-be-built Building’ by Robert Seatter

This week’s Friday Poem is ‘Sir John Soane imagines the Ruins of His yet-to-be-built Building’ by Robert Seatter from his collection ‘The House of Everything’.

Close up photo of a pebbled shore with waves lapping in from the sea.

January 24, 2025

Friday Poem – ‘Pepper’ by Siobhán Campbell

This week’s Friday Poem is ‘Pepper’ by Siobhán Campbell from her collection ‘Cross-Talk.

Photo of bare trunks of silver birch standing in the snow.

January 10, 2025

Friday Poem – ‘Birch’ by Hilary Llewellyn-Williams

This week’s Friday Poem is ‘Birch’ by Hilary Llewellyn-Williams from her sequence ‘The Tree Calendar’ republished in ‘The Little Hours: New and Selected Poems’.

Photo of a bright star shining against a midnight blue sky

December 20, 2024

Friday Poem – ‘A Child for Our World’ by Gina Wilson

Our final Friday Poem of 2024, is ‘A Child for Our World’ by Gina Wilson from the pamphlet ‘Twelve Poems for Christmas’.

The green smudge of the Northern Lights hanging over an icy lake and lonely mountain.

December 6, 2024

Friday Poem – ‘Light from the North’ by Carolyn Jess-Cooke

This week’s Friday Poem is ‘Light from the North’ by Carolyn Jess-Cooke from her collection ‘We Have to Leave the Earth’.

Photo of a starling murmuration

November 29, 2024

Friday Poem – ‘Post-Script: for Gweno’ by Alun Lewis

This week’s Friday Poem is ‘Post-script: for Gweno’ by Alun Lewis.

A group of Seren titles arranged against a snowy blanket surrounded by festive lights

November 28, 2024

Seren Christmas Gift Guide 2024

Our Christmas Gift Guide is back for 2024 with bookish recommendations to help you find the perfect gifts this Christmas. Read on for our suggestions, or browse at your leisure on our Books pages.

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