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September 14, 2018
Friday Poem – ‘Summer’, Catherine Fisher
The weather has suddenly taken a cold turn in our corner of the world, so to remember this year’s hot months our Friday Poem this week is ‘Summer’ by Catherine Fisher, from her collection The Unexplored Ocean. ‘She writes imaginatively, bringing dea…
September 10, 2018
Short Story of the Month | ‘The Walk’, Jonathan Page
Our new Short Story of the Month is ‘The Walk’ by Jonathan Page. After the anniversary of his lover’s death, a man walks purposefully along a familiar hillside path and ruminates on the relationship that has come to define his life. Ten years have pa…
September 7, 2018
Friday Poem – ‘Extremities’, Claire Williamson
Tonight Claire Williamson will be reading alongside fellow Seren poets Elizabeth Parker and Ross Cogan, and three Parthian poets, for Cardiff Book Festival’s Friday Night Poetry Party. In anticipation, our Friday Poem is ‘Extremities’ from Claire’s r…
September 7, 2018
Chocolate Mousse – a recipe from The Occasional Vegan
This weekend you’ll find Sarah Philpott at the Cardiff Book Festival chatting to fellow vegan cook Gaz Oakley. While you wait for the event, why not whip up some of Sarah’s delicious chocolate mousse? Believe it or not, this recipe uses chickpea wate…
September 3, 2018
Carrie Etter’s The Weather in Normal named as a PBS Winter Recommendation
Carrie Etter’s forthcoming collection, The Weather in Normal, has been named a Poetry Book Society Recommendation for Winter 2018. The varied list of selections also includes Raymond Antrobus, well-known for his spoken word poetry; former Birmingham…
August 31, 2018
Friday Poem – ‘Letter to my Mother’, Katrina Naomi
We are thrilled that the Society of Authors has just awarded Katrina Naomi an Author’s Foundation grant to help complete work for her second Seren collection, due in 2020. In celebration, our Friday Poem this week is taken from Katrina’s previous boo…
August 29, 2018
An interview with poet Ross Cogan
Bragr is Ross Cogan’s third collection of poetry, an compelling mix of environmental woes, apocalyptic predictions, and richly reimagined tales from Norse mythology. Where does Cogan’s inspiration come from, and what does he hope readers will take aw…
August 24, 2018
Friday Poem – ‘Red Road Flats’, Caroline Smith
This week our Friday Poem is ‘Red Road Flats’, from Caroline Smith’s poignant and hard-hitting collection, The Immigration Handbook, in which the poems are carefully crafted tributes to the gut-wrenching stories Smith hears every day in her work as a…
August 17, 2018
Friday Poem – ‘Roots’, Lynne Hjelmgaard
Our Friday Poem this week is ‘Roots’ by Lynne Hjelmgaard, from her collection A Boat Called Annalise. ‘A Boat Called Annalise is a triumphant collection of poetry, marking a new embarkation for Hjelmgaard as a poet. It’s a collection which can be rea…
August 16, 2018
Seren shortlisted for Social Business Wales Award
We are delighted to announce that we at Seren have been shortlisted for the ‘Consumer Facing’ category in this year’s Social Business Wales Awards. The awards night will be held on Wednesday 26th September at Cardiff’s City Hall. Entrants come from…
August 6, 2018
An extract from A Simple Scale by David Llewellyn
In David Llewellyn’s compelling new novel, A Simple Scale, a single piece of music starts a story that takes us from Soviet Russia and McCarthyite Hollywood to post-9/11 New York, as the mystery of the lives of two gay composers is uncovered. In the…
August 4, 2018
An interview with Cardiff author & legend, Peter Finch
The Eisteddfod will soon be in full swing in Cardiff’s beautiful Bay area. We can’t wait to welcome you to Wales’ capital city – and to introduce you to our resident Cardiff expert, Peter Finch, who will be signing copies of his new book on the Welsh…
