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November 18, 2017
A glittering new festive pamphlet: Twelve Poems for Christmas
‘It’s not Christmas, it’s only November!’ we hear you cry. Well, we can’t help but feel a little festive as the new Twelve Poems for Christmas pamphlet is now available to pre-order. Last year’s Christmas Poetry Competition was a huge success. Judge…
November 17, 2017
Friday Poem – ‘Lear Father’, Paul Deaton
Our Friday Poem this week is ‘Lear Father’ from Paul Deaton’s recently published debut, A Watchful Astronomy. Welsh-raised and Bristol-based, Paul Deaton has produced a debut collection full of poems that are quietly precise, yet full of powerful emo…
November 16, 2017
Free poetry alert – enjoy samples from all our 2017 collections
Who doesn’t love a freebie? We’ve put together something a little special for all you poetry lovers – the Seren Poetry Sampler 2017. This free PDF is now available to download, and contains a free poem from each of our 2017 collections. It also cont…
November 13, 2017
Win a copy of Dark Land, Dark Skies by Martin Griffiths
Enter our giveaway to win a copy of the hardback edition of Dark Land, Dark Skies, Martin Griffiths’ fascinating mythological astronomy book. To enter, simply sign up to the Seren newsletter before 1st December:https://www.serenbooks.com/newsletter/s…
November 10, 2017
Friday Poem – ‘The Romantic’, Katrina Naomi
Our Friday Poem this week is ‘The Romantic’, from The Way the Crocodile Taught Me by Katrina Naomi, who has just been shortlisted for B O D Y’s ‘Best of the Net’. The Way the Crocodile Taught Me is a heartfelt and tragi-comic portrayal of a fraught c…
November 7, 2017
Cath Drake wins Second Place in the Resurgence Prize
Cath Drake, author of Sleeping with Rivers (Mslexia Pamphlet Prize winner, 2013), is the Second Prize winner in the Resurgence Prize. he Resurgence Prize with The Poetry School is the world’s first major award for ecopoetry. With a first prize of £5,…
November 3, 2017
Friday Poem – ‘Sax Burglar Blues’, Robert Walton
This week our Friday Poem is the title number from Robert Walton’s brand new collection, Sax Burglar Blues. Not so much a discovery as a re-discovery, Robert Walton’s new book of poems, Sax Burglar Blues, is his first full collection since winning a…
October 30, 2017
Katrina Naomi nominated for B O D Y Best of the Net
B O D Y have just unveiled their list of nominees for the 2017 Best of the Net Anthology, and Seren’s Katrina Naomi is in the running for her poem ‘The Reveal’. Katrina’s most recent poetry collection is The Way the Crocodile Taught Me. See the full…
October 27, 2017
Friday Poem – ‘Intruder’, Mike Jenkins
Our Friday Poem this week, in time for Halloween, is sure to give you a bit of a chill: ‘Intruder’, from Mike Jenkins’ 1995 collection, This House, My Ghetto. In This House, My Ghetto we see a post-modern, post-industrial landscape – far different fr…
October 23, 2017
Legend of the Month: Gwyneth Lewis
Each month we are celebrating one fantastic Seren author in honour of Wales’ Year of Legends. This month the spotlight has fallen on Wales’ first ever National Poet, Gwyneth Lewis, shown here in brilliant pastel by artist Lorraine Bewsey, from her se…
October 20, 2017
Friday Poem – ‘Wintering’, Rhiannon Hooson
Rhiannon Hooson’s incredible debut collection, The Other City, has just appeared on the Wales Book of the Year shortlist – and this week our Friday Poem is one from its pages: the seasonally-appropriate ‘Wintering’. The Other City offers us elegant,…
October 19, 2017
What to read on Halloween
You can’t beat a chilling tale to read as darkness creeps ever earlier into the evening. From classics with haunted houses and man-made monstrosities to modern physological terrors, these books are at the top of our list of what to read on Halloween….
