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The latest news on Seren’s books, authors, events and prizes.
15 July 2011 - 02:47 pm
The Forward Prize shortlist has been announced, and we here at Seren, are thrilled to see two of our poetry titles on the shortlist for ‘Best First Collection’ 2011.
Both Sound Archive by Nerys Williams and Loudness by Judy Brown find themselves shortlisted along with another four poets.
Sound Archive is a strikingly original first collection of poems. Using formal strategies similar to modernist painting: abstraction, dislocation, surrealist juxtaposition, the poet conjures a...
8 July 2011 - 08:31 am
Graham Mort scooped the Edge Hill Short Story prize 2011, with his collection Touch. The winner was announced at Blackwells, Charing Cross Road in London. Touch was shortlisted amongst some diverse names such as, Michele Roberts, Polly Samson. Helen Simpson and Tom Vowler. Mort's collection includes a Bridport prize-winning short story "The Prince". Graham is currently abroad and was unable to collect his £5,000, Penny Thomas (Fiction Editor at Seren) accepted it on his...
5 July 2011 - 10:54 am
Two Seren authors have been shortlisted for two prizes - and the winners are to be announced 7th July 2011.
Pascale Petit is shortlisted for Wales Book of the Year 2011 with her poetry collection What the Water Gave Me: Poems after Frida Kahlo. Petit's latest collection was also shortlisted for the T S Eliot prize 2010.
Graham Mort is shortlisted for the Edge Hill Short Story Prize 2011 with Touch, a collection of short stories. This collection includes the Bridport prize-winning story...
4 July 2011 - 08:55 am
Wales Book of the Year 2011 Ceremony is taking place on the 7th July 2011 at 7pm Cineworld, Cardiff.
Seren poet Pascle Petit is one of the three authors to be shortlisted for Wales Book of the Year 2011 prize. What the Water Gave Me: Poems after Frida Kahlo contains fifty-two poems in the voice of the Mexican painter Frida Kahlo. Some of the poems are close interpretations of Kahlo’s work, while others are parallels or version homages where Petit draws on her experience as a...
23 June 2011 - 03:26 pm
Thursday 23rd June 7.30 - 9.30pm The Bluecoat, Liverpool. Tickets £5/ £4. www.bluecoat.org.uk/events/view/events/1015
For lovers of Bob Dylan's music and lyrics, David Wolley and Phil Bowen launch and read their anthology, co-edited with Damian Furniss The Captain's Tower: Seventy Poets Celebrate Bob at Seventy, which includes contributors from Roger McGough, Peter Finch, Allen Ginsberg and themselves.