Seren Events Archive
The latest news on Seren’s books, authors, events and prizes.
As Margaret Atwood says: ‘ I think calling it climate change is rather limiting. I would rather call it everything change. ‘Time is running out. We need more healthy, creative and sustainable visions of our world, to look more deeply at our place in the world in this time of climate and environmental crisis. We must also care for ourselves and others, and envisage a more just world. Join Cath Drake, feature reader, Craig Santos Perez and a selection of poets from across the UK & Europe who will read their poems from The Climate of Change Poetry Challenge (workshop participants). Poets...
Peter Finch, author of Walking Cardiff and Real Cardiff among many others, will discuss his latest book Edging the City. Peter is perhaps the foremost chronicler of Cardiff, past and present and his response to the 2020 lockdown restrictions confining people to their local authority area was to begin walking the boundary of his. This was in a mirror of his long walk along the south Wales coast recorded in Edging the Estuary. Edging the City explores (often literally) why and where borders exist, their purposes, legal and geopolitical reasons for their existence and when politics crosses...
Come along to this entertaining, thought-provoking, and inspiring evening - the final 2022 Coast to Coast to Coast poetry reading event hosted by Maria Isakova-Bennett! At this event we will launch a limited edition hand-stitched journal Scar Tissue by Stephen Keeler, enjoy readings from Coast to Coast to Coast poets Judy Brown and Ken Evans, and hear innovative music from Nick Branton. Prize winning Seren poet Judy Brown will read from her recent collection published this autumn, Lairs. This is Judy’s third collection for Seren, having previously published Crown Sensations (2016) and...
Hosted by Seren author Robert Minhinnick at Sustainable Wales in Porthcawl, the Green Room is a monthly reading series featuring local authors and an open mic. On Friday 25th November they're joined by Karen Brewer, author of Dancing in the Sun. The guest reading will be followed by an open mic. Starts at 8pm
Peter Finch, author of Walking Cardiff and Real Cardiff among many others, will discuss his latest book Edging the City. Peter is perhaps the foremost chronicler of Cardiff, past and present and his response to the 2020 lockdown restrictions confining people to their local authority area was to begin walking the boundary of his. This was in a mirror of his long walk along the south Wales coast recorded in Edging the Estuary. Edging the City explores (often literally) why and where borders exist, their purposes, legal and geopolitical reasons for their existence and when politics crosses...
Join us online for the launch of Kathryn Bevis' pamphlet Flamingo. A debut of startling originality, Flamingo introduces us to a troupe of wild, unique, and captivating poems. Life and our own embodiment are brought sharply into focus as we encounter a variety of subjects including work, survival, love, and mortality. Kathryn is a poet, a poetry teacher and founder of The Writing School Online. Her poems have been widely published and have also featured on BBC Radio 4. She will be joined by guest readers Vicky Morris and Jonathan Edwards, whose collection My Family and Other Superheroes (...