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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…
May 14, 2017
Happy Dylan Thomas Day
Selected Seren titles are 50% off in celebration of International Dylan Thomas Day, a day celebrating the life and work of Welsh poet Dylan Thomas, held on 14 May each year to mark the date Under Milk Wood was first read on stage at 92Y The Poetry Ce…
May 12, 2017
Friday Poem – ‘Selfridges’, Tamar Yoseloff
This week our Friday Poem is ‘Selfridges’, the opening number from Tamar Yoseloff’s A Formula for Night: New and Selected Poems. First published in Sweetheart (Slow Dancer Press, 1998), ‘Selfridges’ portrays an intermingling of awe and repulsion as t…
May 5, 2017
Friday Poem – ‘Almost but not quite there’, Rebecca Perry
Our Friday poem this week is ‘Almost but not quite there’ from little armoured by Rebecca Perry. ‘Almost but not quite there’ is an insightful and nostalgic poem which captures an early childhood memory of ‘running away’. The poem is a touching remem…
April 28, 2017
Friday Poem – ‘This Is Not A Rescue’, Emily Blewitt
Last night we squeezed into packed Waterstones Cardiff to hear Emily Blewitt read from her brand new collection, This Is Not A Rescue. Today we are thrilled to feature the title poem here on the blog as this week’s Friday Poem. In This Is Not…
April 21, 2017
Friday Poem – ‘The Birds of Rhiannon’, Rhian Edwards
Our Friday Poem this week is ‘The Birds of Rhiannon’, the opening number from Rhian Edwards’ new pamphlet, Brood. This poem introduces us (via a nod to the famous medieval Mabinogion story where magic birds, said to bring people back from the dead, c…
April 14, 2017
Friday Poem: ‘Chinese Lacquer Egg’, Deryn Rees-Jones
We’d like to wish you a very happy Easter, and in celebration our Friday Poem today is ‘Chinese Lacquer Egg’ by Deryn Rees-Jones. ‘Chinese Lacquer Egg’ first featured in TS Eliot Prize-shortlisted Burying the Wren, and more recently in What It’s Like…
April 10, 2017
Win a copy of Heat Signature by Siobhán Campbell
Enter our monthly giveaway to win April’s prize: a copy of Siobhán Campbell’s new poetry collection, Heat Signature. To enter, simply sign up to the Seren newsletter before 1st May: https://www.serenbooks.com/newsletter/signup Siobhán Campbell has wo…
April 10, 2017
Literary residency in Brussels for Nerys Williams
Poet Nerys Williams, whose collection Sound Archive (Seren, 2011) won the Irish ‘Strong’ first volume prize (2012) and was nominated for a Forward first volume prize, has been announced as the writer who will undertake a literary residency in Brussel…
