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June 18, 2017
Happy Father’s Day: free Dad joke with every order
To all Dads, Grandads and those soon-to-be: we wish you a very happy Father’s Day. In celebration, we are happy to announce that all orders placed on our website in the next week will come with a complimentary ‘Dad joke’ to add to your collection. …
June 16, 2017
Friday Poem – ‘Blackbird’, Pascale Petit
Our Friday Poem this week is ‘Blackbird’ by Pascale Petit, from her collection Fauverie. Weaving together hardship and beauty, ‘Blackbird’ invokes the image of a bird’s feathers as an abstract comfort in the face of confinement: ‘each number / became…
June 13, 2017
Legend of the Month: Iolo Williams
Each month we are celebrating one fantastic Seren author in honour of Wales’ Year of Legends. This month the spotlight falls on Iolo Williams. Iolo Williams has just returned to our TV screens with Trefi Gwyllt Iolo on S4C and BBC’s Springwatch, wher…
June 12, 2017
Book Giveaway: win a copy of Newspaper Taxis
This month, coinciding with the 50th anniversary of Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, we are giving away a copy of Newspaper Taxis: Poetry After The Beatles. To enter, simply sign up to the Seren newsletter before 1st July: https://www.serenbooks…
June 12, 2017
Win a copy of Newspaper Taxis: Poetry After The Beatles
Enter our giveaway to win a copy of Newspaper Taxis, an anthology of poems inspired by The Beatles. To enter, simply sign up to the Seren newsletter before 1st July:https://www.serenbooks.com/newsletter/signup About Newspaper Taxis:In January 1963…
June 12, 2017
Judy Brown’s Crowd Sensations shortlisted for Ledbury Forte Prize
The shortlist for the inaugural Ledbury Forte Poetry Prize has just been announced, and Seren poet Judy Brown’s collection Crowd Sensations is in the running, alongside five other great collections. In the words of the Ledbury Forte panel, the shortl…
June 2, 2017
Friday Poem – ‘Relic’, Katherine Stansfield
To mark the 50th anniversary of the release of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band on June 1st 1967, our Friday Poem this week is taken from Newspaper Taxis: Poems After The Beatles. Newspaper Taxis collects together poems that showcase the vast an…
May 26, 2017
Friday Poem – ‘Song for the Unburied’, Carol Rumens
Our thoughts are with Manchester, and we don’t have words to express our sorrow. In tribute we feature Carol Rumens’ ‘Song for the Unburied’ as this week’s Friday Poem. ‘Song for the Unburied’ is taken from Carol Rumens’ 2008 collection Blind Spots,…
May 19, 2017
Friday Poem – ‘Branwen’s starling’, Meirion Jordan
Lady Charlotte Guest, the first to publish a full collection of the Mabinogion legends in translation, was born on this day in 1812. In celebration, our Friday Poem is ‘Branwen’s starling’ from Meiron Jordan’s Mabinogion-inspired collection, Regenera…
May 18, 2017
Two Seren authors among the Learned Society of Wales’ 44 New Fellows
In the 2017 election of new Fellows to the Learned Society of Wales, two Seren writers are among the 44 to have been elected: Jasmine Donahaye and Christopher Meredith. Election to Fellowship is a public recognition of academic excellence, and LSW Fe…
May 16, 2017
Book giveaway: win a copy of Mr Vogel by Lloyd Jones
This month we are giving away a copy of Lloyd Jones’ stunning novel, Mr Vogel, which is newly back in print. To enter, simply sign up to the Seren newsletter before 1st June: https://www.serenbooks.com/newsletter/signup About Mr Vogel: Following a bo…
May 15, 2017
Legend of the Month: Robert Graves
Each month we are celebrating one fantastic Seren author in honour of Wales’ Year of Legends. This month the spotlight falls on Robert Graves. Robert Graves began publishing poetry after the outbreak of the First World War, for which he enlisted in 1…
