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The latest news on Seren’s books, authors, events and prizes.
Cardiff-based poet Abeer Ameer reads from her debut poetry collection Inhale/Exile Inspired by the many stories she heard as a child and visiting family in Iraq as an adult, Abeer Ameer's debut collection Inhale/Exile celebrates the resilience of her forebears and extended family in Baghdad and around the world. The book presents a range of characters in a mixture of political and personal poems; ordinary people living in extraordinary circumstances. Formally diverse, using both traditional and experimental methods, these poems are also full of empathy and suffused with a quietly persistent...
People are the inspiration for so much great poetry. As readers, we are moved by poems which explore the connections between us as humans. And people offer such a rich range of ways into poetry. From the character sketch to the monologue, from the real to the surreal, from poems about historical folk to poems in praise of pop culture figures. The narrative, the lyric, the serious, the comic, the sonnet, the epic – this course will explore a rich range of ways in which we can people our poems, or how we can make poems which are worthy of our people. The tutor is Jonathan Edwards whose first...
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