Seren Events Archive
The latest news on Seren’s books, authors, events and prizes.
This event is part of Wordsworth Grasmere’s 2021 contemporary poetry series “Go to the poets, they will speak to thee”, curated and hosted by poet Kim Moore. Each event in the series is part reading, part open mic – and the theme of the open mic changes every month! Jonathan Keller writes that “William Wordsworth would primarily write about the extraordinary in the ordinary, about the ‘powerful feeling’ which accompanies what seems, on initial glance, to be perfectly commonplace”. This month’s guest poet Jonathan Edwards also makes it his business to make the ordinary come alive in full...
Angela Graham considers the potential of the short story as witness statement. How does it drive towards implication, towards response, and the assumption or rejection of responsibility? Angela’s collection A City Burning (Seren 2020) is longlisted for the Edge Hill Short Story Prize. Its 26 stories are set in Northern Ireland, Wales, and Italy. They have been praised for their clarity of voice, economy of expression, and cinematic quality and for their use of languages other than English. Dr. Frank Ferguson, Director of the Centre for Irish and Scottish Literature at the University of...
Katherine Stansfield will be reading at NUTS II as part of a day of events run by Parthian Books. She will be joined by Patrick Jones, Eric Ngalle, Christina Thatcher and Topher Mills plus selected guests. Katherine has published two collections for Seren, Playing House (2014) and, most recently We Could Be Anywhere by Now (2020). Tickets: 5.00. For further information and to book visit: www.chapter.org For details of the full day's events www.parthianbooks.com
Katherine Stansfield will be reading at NUTS II as part of a day of events run by Parthian Books. She will be joined by Patrick Jones, Eric Ngalle, Christina Thatcher and Topher Mills plus selected guests. Katherine has published two collections for Seren, Playing House (2014) and, most recently We Could Be Anywhere by Now (2020). Tickets: 5.00. For further information and to book visit: www.chapter.org For details of the full day's events www.parthianbooks.com
For our final First Thursday of the year we’re delighted to be joined by poets Carolyn Jess-Cooke and Jeremy Dixon. Tickets are £2 (plus admin fee), available through Eventbrite here www.eventbrite.co.uk. Carolyn Jess-Cooke’s most recent collection We Have to Leave the Earth deftly interweaves the personal and the political. Climate change is confronted in a sequence about the Arctic; poems that are vividly descriptive of an extreme landscape, sensitive to the effects of global warming. A second sequence, The House of Rest, is a history in 9 poems of Josephine Butler, (1828-1906) a pioneering...
Join Grahame Davies for the London launch of his book Real Cambridge, the latest in Seren's 'Real' series. Cambridge: the right brain of Oxbridge, the composite capital city of Clever. For eight centuries, this quiet English seat of learning has been one half of history’s longest-running academic arms race. But behind the picture-postcard image of punts, Pimms and polymaths, is another Cambridge: the working East Anglian fenland community that gave us Pink Floyd, Association Football, the Society for Psychical Research, the Cambridge Folk Festival and more. Poet and psychogeographer...