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This cover shows a sculpture of a glass dress as if worn by an invisible figure. It is posed as if sat on its left hip with its legs stretched out to the side. The text reads: Are You Judging Me Yet? Poetry and Everyday Sexism. Kim Moore.
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<p>This collection of lyric essays by Forward prize-winning poet Kim Moore looks at the relationship between poetry and everyday sexism. Moore&nbsp;examines the dynamics of performing poetry as a female poet &ndash; drawing on her&nbsp;PhD&nbsp;research and experiences of writing and performing the poems in her second...
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Glyn Edwards
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<p><strong>&ldquo;Grief, loss and the haunting power of memory are some of the themes deftly explored in this open and vulnerable collection. A skilful, impassioned dive into both the pain and comforts of nostalgia,&nbsp;<em>In Orbit</em>&nbsp;weaves its ideas into elaborate shape poems, zooming out to behold...
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Nerys Williams
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<p>What constitutes a republic? Not Wales, a nation subject to military claims on its landscape and a second home explosion which has hollowed out its communities. The achievement of a republic can be a subversive activity, as was the writing of <em>Republic</em>.</p><p><em>Republic</em> is about class,...
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Judy Brown
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<p><strong>Read Judy&#39;s poem &lsquo;Greenery&rsquo; on the <a href="https://nationalpoetryday.co.uk/poem/greenery/">National Poetry Day website</a></strong></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Lairs brings together something primal and secret &ndash; the lair as haven for a wild...
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Rhiannon Hooson
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<h3>Featured as <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/dec/12/poem-of-the-week-7th-nerve... Poem of the Week</a></h3><p>&nbsp;</p><p><em>Goliat</em> is the long-awaited follow-up to Hooson&rsquo;s debut collection <em>The Other City</em>. The title poem takes us...
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Bryony Littlefair
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<p><em>Escape Room</em>&nbsp;is the long-awaited debut collection of poems from Bryony Littlefair, following her Mslexia prize winning pamphlet&nbsp;<a href="https://www.serenbooks.com/productdisplay/giraffe"><em>Giraffe</em></a>.... is a collection exploring the possibilities of freedom...
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Sammy Weaver
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<h2>Winner of the Mslexia Poetry Pamphlet Prize 2021</h2><p><em>&nbsp;Angola, America</em>, winner of the Mslexia Poetry Pamphlet Prize 2021, takes its name from&nbsp;a prison in Louisiana in the southern United Sates. In these strikingly original, thoroughly contemporary, and deeply moving poems by poet Sammy...
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Kathryn Bevis
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<p><strong>&ldquo;A stunning and original pamphlet...&nbsp;inspiring, impressive and wonderful.&rdquo; &ndash; The London Grip</strong></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Kathryn Bevis&rsquo;s&nbsp;<em>Flamingo</em>&nbsp;introduces us to a troupe of wild, unique, and captivating...
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The Little Hours New and Selected Poems Hilary Llewellyn-Williams
Hilary Llewellyn-Williams
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<p>Hilary Llewellyn-Williams is one of the most renowned poets of her generation in Wales. <em>The Little Hours: New and Selected Poems</em> features poems from her earliest as well as her latest work.</p><p>Fully immersed in the natural world, the &lsquo;Tree Calendar&rsquo; poems are composed in a richly...
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<p>&#39;<em>All of this has been written before,</em></p><p><em>in the godless corners at the back of churches,</em></p><p><em>in the dirt of cotton-fields-corn-fields-battle-fields-</em></p><p><em>in the dirt, any way.&#39;</em></p><p>-...
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<h4>Foreword by Nerys Williams</h4><p>&nbsp;</p><h2>Also available as a&nbsp;<a href="https://www.serenbooks.com/productdisplay/collected-poems-complete-set">... Set</a>&nbsp;for just &pound;30.00</h2><p>&nbsp;</p><p><strong>&ldquo;Since the...
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Peter Finch
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<h4>Forewords by&nbsp;Nerys&nbsp;Williams and Ian&nbsp;McMillan</h4><div>&nbsp;</div><h3>Also available as individual volumes</h3><p>&nbsp;</p><p><strong>&ldquo;Finch&rsquo;s legacy is to create substance from nothing, to defy our knowledge of decay and...
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<h4>Foreword by Ian McMillan</h4><h4>&nbsp;</h4><h2>Also available as a <a href="https://www.serenbooks.com/productdisplay/collected-poems-complete-set">... for just &pound;30.00</h2><p>&nbsp;</p><p><strong>&ldquo;Since the early 1970s, Finch has been the...
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Angela Graham
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<h2>With Phil Cope, Viviana Fiorentino, Mahyar, Csilla Toldy and Glen Wilson</h2><p>&nbsp;</p><p><strong>&ldquo;A necessary and urgent response to the world&rsquo;s&nbsp;increasing crises&hellip;&rdquo; &ndash;&nbsp;Robert&nbsp;Minhinnick</strong></p><p><...
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Paul Henry
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<p><strong>&lsquo;A stunning collection. Much of what you&rsquo;d anticipate to find is here: the lyricism, the haunting evocations of memory, of loss, of absence... and an exploration of song in itself. What makes his poetry so effective is the nuances of white space and the spaces between words... The suggestiveness of his...
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Eric Ngalle Charles
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<p>In <em>Homelands</em>, his debut collection, 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&rsquo; poetry moves between the present and the past, between Africa and...
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Hannah Hodgson
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<h3>Longlisted for the Barbellion Prize</h3><p>&nbsp;</p><p><strong><em>&ldquo;Hannah Hodgson takes us to the paradoxical heart of poetry itself: to be held inside a pain both intensified and soothed by the sheer brilliant presence of the poet&rsquo;s mind.&rdquo; &ndash; Caroline Bird...
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Ben Wilkinson
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<p>This ambitious new collection from poet and critic Ben Wilkinson finds its author experimenting with poetic voice and the dramatic monologue. Carefully crafted yet charged with contemporary language, the book brims with everyone from cage fighters to boy-racers, cancer patients to whales in captivity.</p><p>Several poems...
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Land of Poets Edited by Eurig Sailsbury with shortlisted poems from Wales Young Poets Award 2020
Ed. Eurig Salisbury
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<p><em>Land of Poets</em> is the first&nbsp;Wales Young Poets Award Anthology, a compilation of shortlisted and winning poems in both English and Welsh from the 2020 award. Selected and edited by judge Eurig Salisbury &ndash;&nbsp;Bardd Plant Cymru/Welsh Children&rsquo;s Laureate 2011-13 and Welsh-language editor...
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<p>As an Annual Seren Subscriber, you&rsquo;ll&nbsp;receive&nbsp;three brand-new Seren books a&nbsp;year plus&nbsp;a range of other subscriber perks.&nbsp;Every new subscriber will receive a welcome pack containing a Subscriber&nbsp;tote-bag, notebook and pen ahead of their first delivery.</p><p>&...
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<p>This one year subscription is the perfect gift for any book lover.&nbsp;The recipient will receive&nbsp;three brand-new Seren books across the year plus&nbsp;a range of other subscriber perks.</p><p>Buy today and we&rsquo;ll post them a gift card&nbsp;explaining who the gift&nbsp;is from&nbsp;to...
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Carolyn Jess-Cooke
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<p>Carolyn Jess-Cooke&rsquo;s new poetry collection is both keenly political and deeply personal. The opening poem &lsquo;now&rsquo; features a seemingly peaceful domestic scene of a family lounging at home as the starting point for meditation on history, time, mortality and the fate of the planet:&nbsp;<em>I think of...
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Polly Atkin
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<h4>Longlisted for the Laurel Prize 2022</h4><p><strong>Poetry Book Society&nbsp;Winter Selection&nbsp;2021</strong></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><em>Much With Body</em> is the startlingly original second collection by poet Polly Atkin. The beauty of the Lake District is both balm...
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Kim Moore
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<h3>Winner of the Forward Prize for Best Collection 2022</h3><p>&nbsp;</p><p><strong><em>&ldquo;All the Men I Never Married</em>&nbsp;is a work of immense focus, intelligence and integrity.&rdquo; &ndash; <em>The Yorkshire Times</em></strong></p><p>...
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