Seren Events Archive
The latest news on Seren’s books, authors, events and prizes.
Join us for an evening with Paul Henry to celebrate his new collection, As If To Sing, forthcoming from Seren. The power of song, to sustain the human spirit, resonates through As if to Sing. A trapped caver crawls back through songs to the sea; Welsh soldiers pack their hearts into a song on the eve of battle, ‘for safe-keeping’; a child crossing a bridge sings ‘a song with no beginning or end’…. Blurring past and present, a ‘torchsong’ of music and light intensifies in 'The Boys in the Branches', a moving sequence to the poet’s sons where three boys scale a tree to manhood, to ‘carve their...
Join us in the beer garden at The Grange Pub in Cardiff for the launch of Homelands by Eric Ngalle Charles. Attendance is free but registration is essential. Register via Eventbrite here www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/323236147017. Eric will be reading from the collection and signing copies which can be purchased on the night. The reading will begin at 7pm. In Homelands Eric Ngalle Charles draws on his early life raised by the matriarchs of Cameroon, being sent to Moscow by human traffickers, and finding a new home in Wales. Rich in tone, subject and emotion, Charles’ poetry moves between the present...
Join Eric Ngalle Charles, a Cameroon-born Wales based writer, poet, and playwright. Arriving in Wales as a near-penniless migrant, after being trafficked to Russia by a criminal gang, he has remade his life as a poet/writer, and dazzling performer of his own work. He was awarded the Creative Wales Award 2017/2018 for his work on the topics of migration, trauma, and memory and was selected as one of Hay 30 in 2017. His autobiography I, Eric Ngalle was published by Parthian Books 2019 and his poetry collection Homelands is out now from Seren. Admission is free but booking is advised. For futher...
Join Eric Ngalle Charles, a Cameroon-born Wales based writer, poet, and playwright. Arriving in Wales as a near-penniless migrant, after being trafficked to Russia by a criminal gang, he has remade his life as a poet/writer, and dazzling performer of his own work. He was awarded the Creative Wales Award 2017/2018 for his work on the topics of migration, trauma, and memory and was selected as one of Hay 30 in 2017. His autobiography I, Eric Ngalle was published by Parthian Books 2019 and his poetry collection Homelands is out now from Seren. Admission is free but booking is advised. For futher...
This event showcases three stunning poets from Seren. Hannah Hodgson's poems have been published by BBC Arts, The Poetry Society and Magma, amongst other outlets. She is a recipient of a 2020 Northern Writers Award for Poetry, and the 2021 Poetry Business New Poets Prize. Her debut collection from Seren, 163 Days, is published this year. Polly Atkin's first poetry collection Basic Nest Architecture (Seren 2017) was longlisted for the Michael Murphy Memorial Prize and she is also the author of a number of pamphlets including Shadow Dispatches (Seren 2013) which won the Mslexia poetry...
Join Eric Ngalle Charles, a Cameroon-born Wales based writer, poet, and playwright. Arriving in Wales as a near-penniless migrant, after being trafficked to Russia by a criminal gang, he has remade his life as a poet/writer, and dazzling performer of his own work. His first play, My Mouth Brought Me Here, was showcased at Encampment in London Southbank. It is a play based around his poetry and an Old West African Proverb which explores the themes of migration, language, freedom of expression and dictatorship. His memoir I, Eric Ngalle was published by Parthian in 2020 and his poetry...