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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…
April 10, 2017
Win a copy of Siobhán Campbell’s Heat Signature
Enter our giveaway to win a copy of Heat Signature, the new collection of poetry from prize-winning Irish poet Siobhán Campbell. To enter, simply sign up to the Seren newsletter before 1st April:https://www.serenbooks.com/newsletter/signup About He…
April 8, 2017
Legend of the Month: Ruth Bidgood
Each month we are shining the spotlight on one fantastic Seren author in honour of Wales’ Year of Legends. Our selection for April is the poet Ruth Bidgood. Ruth Bidgood turns 95 this year, and her poetry career spans over five decades. She was born…
April 7, 2017
Friday Poem – ‘Newborn’, Graham Clifford
Our Friday Poem this week is ‘Newborn’ from The Hitting Game by Graham Clifford. ‘Newborn’ is a disarmingly intimate poem which tenderly describes the ‘unfurling’ of a precious new life, the minute changes in her being, and her otherwordly fragility…
March 31, 2017
Friday Poem – ‘Cream teas, Sunday’, Katherine Stansfield
This week our Friday Poem is Katherine Stansfield’s ‘Cream teas, Sunday’, from Playing House. ‘Cream teas, Sunday’ is a sickly-sweet vision of chaos in the pursuit of a cream tea. ‘Stampedes’ of customers interrupt the calm sophistication of a tea ro…
