Seren Events Archive
The latest news on Seren’s books, authors, events and prizes.
At this online event as part of the Kendal Poetry Festival, Abeer Ameer will read from her eagerly awaited first collection Inhale/Exile alongside Jen Hadfield. Abeer Ameer's debut collection Inhale/Exile explores her Iraqi heritage and the 1970’s Britain experienced by her parents. Jen Hadfield's collection The Stone Age (Picador) also explores place and what we inherit, focusing in on her Shetland home, its people and their working lives. Dove Cottage Young Poet Fleur Parkin will also perform at this event. Tickets £5. Full details can be found on kendalpoetryfestival.co.uk.
Meet the author Leslie Scase as he explores the world of late Victorian crime and punishment in this illustrated talk, bringing this fascinating era and subject alive. Leslie shares his research and how this led to writing his crime novel Fortuna's Deadly Shadow the start of a compelling murder mystery series packed with history and intrigue. Within his presentation, the author covers the background to the period and explains: - how crime was able to flourish; the types of crime that were prevalent; and how the forces of law and order responded. The talk includes an interactive section where...
Join Wenlock Books live on Zoom for an hour of poetry on the theme of Love - what will survive of us. Special guest Paul Henry will be reading some of his own poems, specially chosen, and a gathering of some twenty plus readers will share their favourite poems on the enduring nature of love. There will be poems from Carol Ann Duffy, Jackie Kay, Louis Macneice, Owen Sheers, Philip Larkin, Alun Lewis, Stevie Smith, Jackie Morris and many others! Paul Henry has published seven collections of poetry for Seren, most recently The Glass Aisle (2018). For details and to join the breakfast (bring...
Giving Your Poetry Some Oomph! Ready to up your game? Join this masterclass led by Katrina Naomi where we’ll read and write poems that demand to be noticed. We’ll look at risk-taking poems, those with a generous dash of flamboyance, poems laced with sparky ideas, outstanding titles and gorgeous last lines. Writers at all stages welcome. The masterclass will be delivered via Zoom and will last two hours including time for you to write. You will need to have a computer or smart device and a reliable internet connection in order to participate. This is a live event only and it will not be...
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...