Seren Events Archive
The latest news on Seren’s books, authors, events and prizes.
Cheltenham Poetry Festival are delighted to host a reading by Elizabeth Parker and Frank McMahon plus open mic. There will be a number of two-minute open mic slots available, including a number of slots reserved for poets who have not read at a Cheltenham Poetry Festival open mic before. To sign up choose an open mic ticket. Elizabeth Parker has won and been shortlisted for a number of prizes including the Bridport, Melita Hume, Troubadour International, and Gregory O’Donoghue awards. Her debut collection In Her Shambles (Seren 2018) was described as Wonderfully lucid and economical......
Join us on Wednesday 14th July to hear Robert Seatter launch his new collection The House of Everything live on Zoom. Universally captivating, Sir John Soane’s Museum in London is a labyrinth of evocation and imagination. Robert Seatter’s residency at the museum results in ‘The House of Everything’ a spellbinding collection of poem which takes the reader on a journey through the museum, opening up its spaces and the eclectic collection within its walls. As we emerge from the pandemic, and as the building re-opens its doors, there’s no better time to be reminded of the power of museums and...
Rhian Edwards will be reading from The Estate Agent’s Daughter (Seren 2020) her eagerly awaited follow-up to her multi-prizewinning debut Clueless Dogs (Seren 2012). Her voice is both powerfully personal, local to her Bridgend birthplace, and performative, born to be read aloud. ‘Brilliant, visceral poems. Reading them feels like being led through beautiful rooms by an estate agent who always takes care to show you what’s hidden beneath the floorboards’ (Joe Dunthorne). Also reading will be Bohdan Piasecki, a poet from Poland based in Birmingham who has taken his poems from the upstairs room...
Rosalind Hudis will read from her latest collection Restorations (Seren 2021), which takes the reader on a journey into what it means to preserve – a monument, a moment, a life-story, a poppy. It’s about the hunger to possess and the need to let go. ‘If a poem is like a picture, these are history paintings, rich in human detail and many-layered in their brushwork’ (Matthew Francis). Also reading will be Isabel Galleymore whose first collection, Significant Other, won the John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize in 2020 and was shortlisted for the Forward Best First Collection Prize...
'Alchemy – how to turn science into lyric' is a two hour workshop led by Rosalind Hudis whose collection Restorations was published by Seren earlier this year. Poetry and Science are often seen as opposed. Yet there is a long history of poets who had, or have, a vocation in science, natural history or medicine (think Keats) and an equally long history of poets taking inspiration from the methods, mess, magic and matter of science in all its disciplines. In this workshop we shall explore, through conversations around selected examples, some of the ways poets meld the language and meaning...
Live poetry and music – yes, in person, with real human performers who are not on a screen! – is alive and well and kicking off in Weston-super-Mare at 7.30pm on Thursday 8 July in the magical setting of the Old Town Quarry in Weston. The mighty Theatre Orchard's SPOKEASY Poetry and Music Night will feature the wonderful, powerful poetry of Seren poets, The Spoke – Abeer Ameer, Elizabeth Parker, Claire Williamson and Robert Walton – plus acoustic sets from singer-songwriter, Mark Ely, frontman for fabulous rock-soul band, Eastertown. Tickets £5, available via: www.theatreorchard.org.uk/events...