Seren Events Archive
The latest news on Seren’s books, authors, events and prizes.
An hour of poetry, music and film at the launch of Sarah Wimbush’s Smith/Doorstop pamphlet The Last Dinosaur in Doncaster which was a winner in The 2020 Poetry Business Book & Pamphlet Competition. In an exuberant journey down the ginnels of South Yorkshire meet men who should have been astronauts, a missing erotic statue and language anchored in a warm Donny twang. Sarah is a Leeds poet who hails from Doncaster and is a member of York Stanza and Doncaster’s Read 2 Write run by Ian Parks. Her debut poetry pamphlet Bloodlines (Seren 2020) was shortlisted in the Michael Marks Awards. Sarah...
A poetry reading from Sarah Wimbush and Gill McEvoy followed by an open mic. Sarah will read a selection from her two very recent pamphlets – Bloodlines (Seren Books, 2020), and The Last Dinosaur in Doncaster (Smith Doorstop, 2021). Her poetry is rooted in Yorkshire with tales of family, colliery villages and Gypsies and Travellers. Using both humour and defiance, her poems weave through memory with one eye on the linguistic and always a sense of being part of something colourful, untamed and rare. Gill will read from her new collection: Are you listening? (Hedgehog Press, 2020). This...
In this audience-directed event, Dr Kim Moore will explore poetry, everyday sexism and female desire, drawing on her recently completed PhD thesis. The event will incorporate audience polls and ask the audience to decide what they would like to hear next, drawing inspiration from Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone’s Fighting Fantasy gamebooks. Some of the material in this event will discuss sexual violence and trauma. The event will be hosted by the Manchester Game Studies Network and chaired by Dr Nikolai Duffy from Manchester Metropolitan University. Tickets cost £5 (£2 for students)....