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March 24, 2016
Your Easter egg from Seren: 30% off books
Happy Easter everyone! We have a special Easter egg on the website for you: 30% off books across the Seren store. The Easter holiday carries with it the message of new beginnings, so why not begin a new book? Our 30% offer includes our gorgeous poetr…
March 18, 2016
Friday Poem – ‘Campbell’ by Siobhán Campbell
St Patrick’s Day has just passed and fittingly, our Friday Poem this week comes from Irish poet Siobhán Campbell’s collection, Cross-Talk. Acerbic, cool, controlled, this is poetry with attitude. Many of the stories in this collection start in Irelan…
March 17, 2016
Happy St Patrick’s Day 2016
Happy St Patrick’s Day to every one of you, far and wide. And here’s our bookish Irish flag in honour of the day, pieced together using just a few of our green, white and orange bo…
March 14, 2016
Owen Sheers wins Culture Award, St David Awards
Owen Sheers has won the 2016 Culture Award in the St David Awards, which annually recognise and celebrate the exceptional achievements of people in Wales. The First Minister said: “What a fantastic group of winners – congratulations to everyone who’s…
March 11, 2016
Friday Poem | My Father’s Wardrobe
This week, our Friday Poem is ‘My Father’s Wardrobe’, from Pascale Petit’s Fauverie, which was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize 2014. The Fauverie of this book is the big-cat house in the Jardin des Plantes zoo. But the word also evokes the Fauve…
March 11, 2016
Terroir by Graham Mort longlisted for Edge Hill Prize 2016
Congratulations to Graham Mort, whose short story collection Terroir has been longlisted for the Edge Hill Short Story Prize in its tenth anniversary year. This is the second time Graham has had a collection on the Edge Hill Prize list – Touch went o…
March 8, 2016
International Women’s Day: celebrating Seren’s female fiction writers
International Women’s Day 2016 has arrived. We celebrate this year by highlighting just a few of the talented women we’ve been fortunate enough to publish. There will always be more names to mention and more works to appreciate, and you can find coun…
March 8, 2016
International Women’s Day: celebrating Seren’s female poets
International Women’s Day 2016 has arrived. We celebrate this year by highlighting just a few of the talented women we’ve been fortunate enough to publish. There will always be more names to mention and more works to appreciate, and you can find coun…
March 4, 2016
Friday Poem – Different Water
Happy Friday one and all. This week’s Friday Poem is an exploration of the significance and power of motherhood, taken from Carolyn Jess-Cooke’s collection, Boom!, as a little early celebration of Mother’s Day this coming Sunday. ‘Becoming a mother c…
March 1, 2016
Happy St David’s Day 2016
Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Hapus! Happy St David’s Day to one and all. This is a day to celebrate Welshness, so that means warm Welsh cakes, bunches of fresh daffodils and one or two good Welsh books to read. Why not celebrate this St David’s Day by investing in…
February 26, 2016
Friday Poem – Elterwater Rain
This week our Friday Poem is taken from the brand new, beautiful Crowd Sensations by Judy Brown. A Poetry Book Society Recommendation, Crowd Sensations is the worthy follow-up to Judy’s Forward Prize-nominated debut, Loudness. Judy Brown is a poet of…
February 23, 2016
Jaki McCarrick in The Irish Times: the success of the Irish Short Story
Read Jaki McCarrick’s article in The Irish Times, where she asks: what is the story behind the success of the Irish Short Story? Irish writers have excelled at the short story. But is it due, asks writer Jaki McCarrick, to the Irish oral tradition, C…
