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Photo of a dusty road bending to the left and disappearing into rocky mountains

August 16, 2024

Friday Poem – ‘Peau’ by Damian Walford Davies

This week’s Friday Pome is ‘Peau’ by Damian Walford Davies from his collection Viva Bartali!. Viva Bartali! and lots more great poetry titles are currently available half-price in our Summer Sale which runs until 1st September 2024. Use the code summ…

Photo of bees swarming around the branch of a tree

August 2, 2024

Friday Poem – ‘Bees Swarming’ by Ross Cogan

This week’s Friday Poem is ‘Bees Swarming’ by Ross Cogan from his collection ‘Bragr’.

Photo of sunlight streaming through green leaves, a park bench blurred out in the background

July 26, 2024

Friday Poem – ‘H Is for Hurtle, J for July’ by Carrie Etter

This week’s Friday Poem is ‘H Is for Hurtle, J for July’ by Carrie Etter from her collection ‘Grief’s Alphabet’.

Left to right: Rachel Dawson, Megan Farr, Taz Rahma, Elena Vaughan

July 25, 2024

Introducing our new Directors

We’re excited to introduce the four new Directors joining Seren’s Board.

Rock pools lit by the sun

July 19, 2024

Friday Poem – ‘Time Lapse at Porthmeor’ by Lorcán Black

This week’s Friday Poem is ‘Time Lapse at Porthmeor’ by Lorcán Black from his Poetry Book Society recommended collection ‘Strange Husbandry’.

The sea splashing over rocks.

July 12, 2024

Friday Poem – ‘Fickle Lover’ by Katrina Naomi

This week’s Friday Poem is ‘Fickle Lover’ by Katrina Naomi from her collection ‘Battery Rocks’.

Series of Seren book covers. Left to right: The Butterfly House, Wonderboy, The Crazy Truth, This Stolen Land, Battery Rocks, The Edge of Cymru, A Darker Way, Whaling, Strange Husbandry, Cymru & I

July 10, 2024

Seren Books is open to submissions

We are thrilled to share the news that we are re-opening to submissions. Read on for more information about what this means and how to submit to our open call-outs.

Katrina Naomi standing on the shore in her swimming costume looking out across the grey sea

July 8, 2024

Guest Post: Katrina Naomi on nature, risk, poetry, swimming and the sea

To celebrate publication of her collection ‘Battery Rocks’, today’s guest post sees Katrina Naomi muse on some of the themes which inspired the book and how sea swimming forms part of her creative process.

Close up of the feet of two dancers, their shadow stretching out on the purple-lit floor

July 5, 2024

Friday Poem – ‘All Souls’ Saturday Night’ by Carol Rumens

This week’s Friday Poem is ‘All Souls’ Saturday Night’ by Carol Rumens from her collection ‘Animal People’.

Shadow of a child sitting with their arms and legs outstretched on top of someone's shoulders

June 28, 2024

Friday Poem – ‘A Grandfather Dancing with a Child on his Shoulders’ by Robert Walton

This week’s Friday Poem is ‘A Grandfather Dancing with a Child on his Shoulders’ by Robert Walton from his collection ‘Sax Burglar Blues’.

Photo of the statue of liberty surrounded by morning mist.

June 21, 2024

Friday Poem – ‘Nursery Tales’ by Caroline Smith

This week’s Friday Poem is ‘Nursery Tales’ by Caroline Smith from her collection ‘The Immigration Handbook’.

Photo of a stone statue depicting a Sumo wrestler beneath a flowering blossom tree.

June 7, 2024

Friday Poem – ‘I Phone You From the Sumo’ by Carolyn Jess-Cooke

This week’s Friday Poem is ‘I phone you from the Sumo’ by Carolyn Jess-Cooke from her collection ‘Boom!’.

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