Seren Events Archive
The latest news on Seren’s books, authors, events and prizes.
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 (...
Join us for the Pontypridd launch of Sabrina's Teardrop, the latest of the Inspector Chard mysteries, with author Leslie Scase who will be in conversation with Louise Mumford, Co-Chair of Crime Cymru. Refreshments will be provided and signed copies will be on sale. All are welcome.This event is free, but registration is essential. To reserve your place visit: www.eventbrite.co.uk The Inspector Chard mysteries are a series of novels set in the heyday of Victorian Britain. Until now, Thomas Chard has been solving crimes in Pontypridd. Now he returns to his native Shrewsbury, and the...
Join us online for the launch of award-winning poet Judy Brown's third collection Lairs (Seren 2022) with readings and discussions celebrating some collaborations which supported and inspired parts of the book. With poet and musician Barbara Marsh; Mathematician Professor Beth Wingate and Professor Peter Challenor, a mathematician whose work on Uncertainty Quantification inspired some of the poems. Lairs brings together something primal and secret – the lair as haven for a wild or feral animal – with the poem framed as a mathematical equation. Here, the lair is both the community at large...
Join us for the launch of Goliat, the long-awaited follow-up to Rhiannon Hooson’s debut collection The Other City (Seren 2016). The title poem takes us to the Barents Sea and the dark waters of a Russian oil field named Goliat – a whale, a giant, a monster – to the ‘singular infinities of the wintering sea’, where something is starting to sing. This intelligent, sensuous second collection tackles the precariousness of climate emergency and of existing in a human body, along with poems exploring the monstrous and the more-than-human, and the intimate histories of women and their work....