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August 11, 2017
Friday Poem — ‘Self-Portrait with Monkey’, Pascale Petit
This week our Friday Poem is ‘Self-Portrait with Monkey’ by Pascale Petit, taken from her 2010 poetry collection, What the Water Gave Me: Poems After Frida Kahlo. The poems of What the Water Gave Me are narrated through the voice of the twentieth-cen…
August 8, 2017
Feline favourites for International Cat Day
International cat day is the purr-fect time to celebrate man’s true best friends: cats. Here are a few of our favourite feline-centric books. This Is Not A Rescue, Emily Blewitt (£9.99) The author’s much-loved tortoiseshell cat is at the centre of th…
August 7, 2017
Maggie Harris wins third prize, Welsh Poetry Competition
Maggie Harris, poet and author of short story collection Writing on Water, has won third prize in the International Welsh Poetry Competition for her poem, ‘On watching a lemon sail the sea’. See the full list of winners and commended poems on the Wel…
August 4, 2017
Friday Poem – ‘Crisscross’, Lynne Hjelmgaard
This week our Friday Poem is ‘Crisscross’ by Lynne Hjelmgaard, taken from her most recent poetry collection, A Boat Called Annalise. The poems of A Boat Called Annalise recall a journey this much-travelled author took on a sailboat to the Caribbean a…
August 3, 2017
Win a copy of Black Shiver Moss
Enter our giveaway to win a copy of Black Shiver Moss, Graham Mort’s masterly tenth collection of poetry. To enter, simply sign up to the Seren newsletter before 1st September:https://www.serenbooks.com/newsletter/signup About Black Shiver Moss:Gra…
August 1, 2017
Legend of the month, Robert Minhinnick: all books 30% off
Each month we are shining the spotlight on one outstanding author in celebration of Wales’ year of legends, and for August, this is the prize-winning author of poetry, essays and fiction, Robert Minhinnick. Minhinnick is the co-founder of the environ…
July 28, 2017
Friday Poem – ‘The Lovely Disciplines’, Martyn Crucefix
This week our Friday Poem is the title poem from Martyn Crucefix’s brand new collection, The Lovely Disciplines, which came out just yesterday. Displaying his characteristic flair, craft and intelligence, Crucefix’s new poems often begin with the vis…
July 27, 2017
July Book Giveaway: win a copy of The Women of Versailles
You’ll need to hurry, because there are only a few days left for you to enter our monthly giveaway – and this month, the prize is a copy of Kate Brown’s ‘extraordinarily timeless’ debut novel, The Women of Versailles. To enter, simply sign up to the…
July 26, 2017
Martyn Crucefix explores the curiosities of the contemporary world in new poetry collection
Martyn Crucefix’s new collection, The Lovely Disciplines, is newly available from Seren. Composed with his characteristic grace and precision, these new poems step straight into a contemporary world where cursors blink, people Skype, consult Google S…
July 23, 2017
Summer Sale Bestsellers
There’s still time to take advantage of our big summer sale, which ends midnight tonight. But what should you buy? All our books are half price, and that includes a gloriously diverse range of books – everything from novels and short stories to poetr…
July 22, 2017
Summer sale, half-price spotlight: Alun Lewis
Our Legend of the Month’s extraordinary war poetry, short stories, and biographies (written by John Pikoulis) are all included in the half-price summer sale – and the offer ends this Sunday. Who was Alun Lewis? Alun Lewis was born on the 1st July, 19…
July 21, 2017
Friday Poem – ‘The 2nd Razumovsky Quartet and the Reductionists’, Vuyelwa Carlin
Our Friday Poem this week is ‘The 2nd Razumovsky Quartet and the Reductionists’, from Vuyelwa Carlin’s fourth collection, The Solitary. Known for her distinctive style that owes something to Emily Dickinson’s brevity, Carlin is a surprising and unusu…
