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March 3, 2017
Friday Poem – ‘The shame of our island’, Siobhán Campbell
This week our Friday Poem is ‘The shame of our island’ from Siobhán Campbell’s brand new collection, Heat Signature. In ‘The shame of our island’ we are confronted with a sense of contested history, in which the hunter’s tongue-in-cheek aim is to ‘se…
March 2, 2017
Find a free Seren book this World Book Day
Today we are celebrating all things literary for World Book Day, now in its 20th year. We want the world to discover our fantastic authors, and to help a few of you do just that, we’ve left a selection of our books all over Cardiff for lucky people t…
March 2, 2017
Find a free Seren book this World Book Day
World Book Day is now in its 20th year, and once more we are celebrating all things literary. We want the world to discover our fantastic authors, and to help a few of you do just that, we’ve left a selection of Seren books in our favourite independe…
February 24, 2017
Friday Poem – ‘Big Sky’, Sheenagh Pugh
This week our Friday Poem is ‘Big Sky’, from Short Days, Long Shadows by Sheenagh Pugh. In ‘Big Sky’ the overwhelming vastness of the sky is viewed as if for the first time, at a distance from the claustrophobic trappings of the everyday. We are cata…
February 17, 2017
Friday Poem – ‘Questions’, Kate Bingham
This week our Friday Poem is ‘Questions’, from Infragreen by Kate Bingham. ‘Questions’ unpicks the intricate imagined details behind moments of silence, as the speaker interrogates ‘your mouth’s unstated strategy / for the avoidance of speech’. The p…
February 14, 2017
Seren’s Top Ten Literary Romances
Valentine’s Day needn’t be a cause for stress when there are so many great literary romances to get lost in. Happy ending or otherwise, love in literature is beautiful and intense – the perfect distraction on this much-maligned day of devotion. Here…
February 10, 2017
Friday Poem – ‘Love Birds’, Paul Henry
As an early celebration of Saint Valentine’s Day, this week’s Friday Poem is ‘Love Birds’ from Paul Henry’s The Brittle Sea: New and Selected Poems. The ritualistic moments of connection in ‘Love Birds’ defy the couple’s physical separation, and we s…
February 6, 2017
Win a copy of Significance, Jo Mazelis’ Jerwood Prize-winning novel
Enter our giveaway to win a copy of Jo Mazelis’ award-winning novel, Significance. To enter, simply sign up to the Seren newsletter before 1st March: https://www.serenbooks.com/newsletter/signup Significance was a Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize-winn…
February 6, 2017
Win a copy of Significance, Jo Mazelis’ Jerwood Prize-winning novel
Enter our giveaway to win a copy of Jo Mazelis’ award-winning novel, Significance. To enter, simply sign up to the Seren newsletter before 1st March:https://www.serenbooks.com/newsletter/signup Significance was a Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize-win…
February 6, 2017
Polly Atkin poem shortlisted for Gregory O’Donoghue Poetry Prize
Poet Polly Atkin’s ‘Hope Cove’, one of the poems in her soon-to-be released debut collection, Basic Nest Architecture, has been shortlisted for the Gregory O’Donoghue International Poetry Prize 2017. Judge Mary Noonan read over 2,200 entries before s…
February 3, 2017
Friday Poem – ‘What We Talk About When We Talk About Motherhood’, Carolyn Jess-Cooke
This week our Friday Poem comes from Carolyn Jess-Cooke’s poetry collection Boom!. Boom! is a brilliant contribution to the evolving archive of women’s experience, and its poems range from free-verse riffs on essential moments of joy and blame, to ar…
January 30, 2017
Disturbance by Ivy Alvarez one of Courtney LeBlanc’s Best Books of 2016
Ivy Alvarez’s poetry collection Disturbance has been named by Courtney LeBlanc as one of her best books of 2016, alongside authors such as Stephen King and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. You can see the full list on Courtney’s blog, Word Perv. About Dis…
