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May 15, 2018
Short Story of the Month | ‘The Visit’, Jaki McCarrick
May’s Short Story of the Month is ‘The Visit’ by Jaki McCarrick, an award-winning writer of plays, poetry and fiction. McCarrick won the 2010 Papatango New Writing Prize for her play, Leopoldville, and her play Belfast Girls, developed at the Nationa…
May 5, 2018
Seren authors at Hay Festival 2018
We are thrilled to see such a varied mix of Seren author events at this year’s Hay Festival. On Monday 28 May, Barney Norris and David Owen Norris will discuss how the culture of our past shapes and speaks to the present. Punctuated by solo piano pie…
May 1, 2018
Audience of 150 for double poetry book launch
A packed and captive audience of 150 joined us at Waterstones Bristol last night for the launch of two new poetry collections: Visiting the Minotaur by Claire Williamson and In Her Shambles by Elizabeth Parker. The pair were joined by fellow Bristol-…
April 27, 2018
Friday Poem – ‘Penguin Love’, Nerys Williams
On Wednesday the world celebrated its cutest holiday, World Penguin Day, so in continued praise of these adorable birds our Friday Poem this week is ‘Penguin Love’ by Nerys Williams. Taken from Nerys’ 2011 collection Sound Archive, ‘Penguin Love’ is…
April 26, 2018
Paul Deaton on Therapy, Honesty, and Exiting the ‘Poetry Closet’
This article was originally published in Therapy Today (April 2018) and we thank the editors for granting permission for its reproduction here. ‘Without her mirroring, maybe I’d have stayed in my poetry closet. Her affirmation was the turning point i…
April 17, 2018
Siobhán Campbell video poem funded by British Council Northern Ireland
Siobhán Campbell’s ‘When all this is over’ is one of three poems that has been recorded to video with funding from British Council Northern Ireland, as part of the Peace and Beyond Conference in Belfast commemorating twenty years since the Good Frida…
April 17, 2018
Graham Clifford to run Virgin London Marathon for Griffin Schools Trust
Last year the Griffin Schools Trust established a new tradition of a Griffin Schools Trust member of staff running the Virgin London Marathon to raise money for the Trust’s preferred children’s charity of the year. Over £5,000 was raised for the NSPC…
April 13, 2018
Friday Poem — ‘Laika’, Claire Williamson
Tomorrow marks sixty years since the conclusion of the Sputnik 2 spacecraft mission that carried Laika, the first dog and living creature to orbit Earth, into space. In commemoration of the historic dog, who tragically did not survive the mission, ou…
April 6, 2018
Friday Poem – ‘The Hatching’, Rhian Edwards
Spring has just arrived and so our Friday Poem this week is ‘The Hatching’ by Rhian Edwards – a decidedly alternative portrait of new life. Taken from Edwards’ multi award-winning debut, Clueless Dogs, ‘The Hatching’ places us in claustrophobic darkn…
March 30, 2018
Friday Poem – ‘Easter Sunday, Table Mountain’, Graham Mort
It’s Good Friday today and the start of the blissfully long Easter weekend. In celebration, our Friday Poem is ‘Easter Sunday, Table Mountain’ by Graham Mort, from Black Shiver Moss. This transportive poem will sweep you – at all angles – through unf…
March 27, 2018
Emily Blewitt awarded Literature Wales Bursary
Seren poet Emily Blewitt is among the 25 writers who have been awarded Literature Wales Writers’ Bursaries for 2018.
March 23, 2018
Friday Poem – ‘As we live’, Martyn Crucefix
This week as our Friday Poem we have ‘As we live’ by Martyn Crucefix, from his latest collection, The Lovely Disciplines. A second-hand book proves to be the window into another’s world in ‘As we live’, which picks apart a scrawled shopping list to c…
