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September 21, 2017
Legend of the Month: Owen Sheers
Each month we are celebrating one fantastic Seren author in honour of Wales’ Year of Legends. This month the spotlight has fallen on Owen Sheers, whose stunning poetry and fiction are regular Seren bestsellers. Owen Sheers is an author, poet and play…
September 18, 2017
September Book Giveaway: win a copy of Welsh Verse
This month we are giving away a copy of Tony Conran’s milestone of translation, Welsh Verse. To enter, simply sign up to the Seren newsletter before 1st October: https://www.serenbooks.com/newsletter/signup About Welsh Verse: Welsh Verse has made a t…
September 15, 2017
Friday Poem – ‘Blood Testing Piglets’, Ilse Pedler
Our Friday Poem this week is ‘Blood Testing Piglets’ from Ilse Pedler’s debut poetry pamphlet, The Dogs that Chase Bicycle Wheels. Winner of the 2015 Mslexia Poetry Pamphlet Competition, poet Ilse Pedler often writes from her perspective as a working…
September 13, 2017
The Poet and The Artist – R.S. Thomas and Elsi
As the Eglwys Fach R.S. Thomas Literary Festival approaches, we look at the poet’s relationship with his first wife, the artist Mildred ‘Elsi’ Elridge. R.S. Thomas has long been considered one of the greats of Welsh poetry with his bleak but masterfu…
September 8, 2017
Friday Poem – ‘Miner, Abercynon, 1985’, Duncan Bush
Late last month we were shocked and saddened to learn of Duncan Bush’s passing. This week our Friday Poem is one of our favourites from The Hook. The Hook combines powerful early poems from two of Duncan Bush’s prize-winning collections: Aquarium (19…
September 6, 2017
Polly Atkin chosen as a Gladstone’s Library Writer in Residence
Gladstone’s Library have announced their 2018 Writers in Residence, and the four successful applicants are Polly Atkin, Basic Nest Architecture (Seren, 2017); Rachel Malik, Miss Boston and Miss Hargreaves (Penguin Random House, 2017); Cal Flyn, Thick…
September 5, 2017
Win a copy of Tony Conran’s Welsh Verse
Enter our giveaway to win a copy of Tony Conran’s milestone of translation, Welsh Verse. To enter, simply sign up to the Seren newsletter before 1st October:https://www.serenbooks.com/newsletter/signup About Welsh VerseWelsh Verse has made a triumpha…
September 1, 2017
Friday Poem – ‘Archaeology’, Robert Minhinnick
September has arrived, but our Friday Poem looks back to August’s Legend of the Month: Robert Minhinnick. ‘Archaology’ is from his sixth collection, Hey Fatman. Hey Fatman is full of the rich, sometimes strange, always telling, detail that is to be e…
August 25, 2017
Friday Poem – ‘The Battle of Gwen Strad’, Taliesin, translated by Tony Conran
Tony Conran’s unrivalled anthology of Welsh poetry through the ages, Welsh Verse, has just returned to print. This week our Friday Poem is Conran’s translation of ‘The Battle of Gwen Strad’, by sixth century poet, Taliesin. Welsh Verse is a milestone…
August 18, 2017
Friday Poem – ‘For a Foot’, Kathryn Gray
This week our Friday poem is ‘For a Foot’ by Kathryn Gray, taken from her 2004 debut collection, The Never-Never. Propelling us from the rain-lashed back-streets and housing estates of Wales, to London, California and beyond, the poems of The Never-…
August 17, 2017
Legend of the Month: Robert Minhinnick
Each month we are celebrating one fantastic Seren author in honour of Wales’ Year of Legends. This month the spotlight falls on Robert Minhinnick – and as a special treat, all his books are 30% off. Robert Minhinnick, born near Neath in 1952, has pub…
August 15, 2017
Paul Deaton’s forthcoming debut named as a Poetry Book Society Recommendation
The Poetry Book Society have just revealed their Winter selections, and we are delighted to announce that Paul Deaton’s forthcoming debut collection, A Watchful Astronomy, has been named as a Recommendation, alongside books by Ahren Warner, Tim Doole…
