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April 1, 2016
Friday Poem – Flamingos
Our Friday poem is from the Costa Award-winning book of poetry, My Family and Other Superheroes, by Jonathan Edwards. It is titled ‘Flamingos’ and is being turned into a dance! The humor of the poem makes for an ideal April Fools’ Day piece for all t…
April 1, 2016
Rhian Elizabeth wins Second Prize Story Award in Terry Hetherington Young Writers Award 2016
Rhian Elizabeth has won the Second Prize Story Award in the Terry Hetherington Young Writers Award 2016, for her short story ‘The Runners’. The Terry Hetherington Young Writers Award celebrates the talent of young writers of poetry and prose. There w…
March 25, 2016
Friday Poem – Denominations
As we are now approaching Easter, our Friday poem this week will be from Damian Walford-Davies’ Judas. In short-lined, intensely suggestive dramatic monologues, Damian Walford-Davies vividly summons moments of fear and swagger, doubt and passion, des…
March 24, 2016
An Easter Egg from Seren
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 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…
