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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 examines the dynamics of performing poetry as a female poet – drawing on her PhD research and experiences of writing and performing the poems in her second...
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<p><strong>‘I must confess to being completely star-struck by this seminal work’ – <em>The Bay</em></strong></p><p><br />In <em>Dark Land, Dark Skies</em>, astronomer Martin Griffiths subverts conventional astronomical thought by eschewing the...
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<p><strong>“A great go-to recipe book.” – Matt Tebbutt</strong></p><p><strong>“...every bit the equal of their cooking... the sort of tome that becomes battered and splattered with constant use.” – <em>Tom...
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<h3>Winner of the Forward Prize for Best Collection 2022</h3><p> </p><p><strong><em>“All the Men I Never Married</em> is a work of immense focus, intelligence and integrity.” – <em>The Yorkshire Times</em></strong></p><p>...
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<p>In 2020 everyone’s lives were taken over by the Covid-19 pandemic. No-one was unaffected. The spring lockdown changed the way we lived, the way we looked at each other and at ourselves. Big questions engaged us all: PPE, the health service, care homes, shielding. We became used to new words: ‘social distancing&...
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<p><em>Lime, Lemon & Sarsaparilla </em>is a wonderful evocation of Italian immigration in south Wales from the turn of the century to the postwar years, when the Italian café was central to life in many small communities in the Valleys. This first detailed book on the subject follows the fortunes of Italian families such...
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<p>The short story has long been a popular form with writers and readers in Wales. <em>The Green Bridge</em> collects work by 25 of the country’s foremost writers of the twentieth century in an entertaining and varied anthology. Horror, satire, humour, war, tales of the aristocracy, of navvies, love, and...
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<p>James Dean Bradfield has selected his eight Desert Island Poems for the 2020 Seren Cardiff Poetry Festival. This pamphlet gathers together those poems, by John Burnside, Gillian Clarke, Emily Dickinson, Rhian Edwards, Emyr Humphreys, Patrick Jones, John Ormond and Rabindranath Tagore, for those not...
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<p>The UK is known for its natural beauty and its wildlife and in<em> Wild Places UK</em> television naturalist Iolo Williams picks his favourite forty wildlife sites from the many nature reserves around the country. From Hermaness on Shetland to the London Wetland Centre, from Dungeness in Kent to Loch Neagh, Williams criss-...
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<p><strong>‘A cry from the heart that is a triumph of love over despair. Fear, guilt and anger are all here, but so too is real compassion and a genuine urge to make a difference.’ – Alan Titchmarsh</strong></p><p>When Nula’s husband James, a documentary film-maker,...
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<p>Twenty years ago, four lives were brutally taken. But was an innocent man wrongfully convicted of this horrific crime? In the new edition of <em>The Clydach Murders</em>, author and solicitor John Morris reveals new information, making a forensic and compelling case ahead of Dai Morris’ latest appeal.</p><p...
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<p><strong>Winner of the People's Choice Award, Wales Book of the Year 2019</strong></p><p><strong>‘As always Edwards' writing is at once bold and sweeping whilst also managing to maintain a homely and intimate voice that feels personal.’ – Ben Ray</strong>...
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<p><strong>Poetry Book Society Recommendation, Winter 2018</strong></p><p><strong>‘It’s well-nigh impossible to convey with quotation how Etter’s use of language, form, restraint and space combine to such impressive effect.’ – <em>Stride magazine...
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<p><br /><strong>‘At once heartbreaking and comfortingly human, with the skill to make your spirits soar.’ – <em>SkyLightRain</em></strong></p><p><strong>‘Claire Williamson's poems are beguiling hybrids – self-assured yet...
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<p><strong>‘The story behind why this was written is equally as inspiring as are the dishes’ – <em>Buzz Magazine</em></strong></p><p><strong>‘[Sarah Philpott’s] reasoning to try vegan food is sound. Less cruelty, more deliciousness, and some...
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<p><strong>Longlisted for <em>The Guardian</em>’s Not the Booker prize</strong></p><p><strong>‘A deftly-written and highly moving account of the effects of dementia’ – <em>Everybody’s Reviewing</em></strong></p...
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<p><strong>‘... Paul Henry has much of his compatriot R.S. Thomas’s gift, in that poet’s later work, for terse, coolly forthright insightfulness ...’ <em>The TLS</em></strong><br /> </p><p><strong>‘Here is a rich and comforting...
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<p>This sparking selection of Christmas poems includes all those shortlisted for Seren’s inaugural Christmas Poetry Competition.</p><p>Poetry Editor Amy Wack was looking for poems full of feeling that resist cliché, that touch on classic ‘Christmas’ themes, but bring them to life...
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<h3>Re-print coming soon</h3><p><em>Welsh Verse</em>, Tony Conran’s milestone of translation, makes a welcome return. Formerly the <em>Penguin Book of Welsh Verse</em>, Seren has expanded the selection of what is the standard text of high quality translations of Welsh poetry stretching from the...
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<p><strong>‘Tulloch’s new novel is full of wit, smart observation and, yes, Philip Larkin.’ – <em>The TLS</em></strong></p><p><strong>‘A really clever look both at Larkin, at Hull, at the 1950s’ – Michael Arditti on BBC Radio 4...
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<p><strong>‘Full of wit, fun, talent’ – <em>Artemis Poetry</em></strong></p><p><strong>‘Blewitt draws us in with her keen eye for quirkiness, a good ear for dialogue and her riotous delight in all things absurd.’ – Maria Apichella, The...
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<p>Wales is full of wildlife sites and in <em>Wild Places</em> television naturalist Iolo Williams picks his favourite forty from the many nature reserves scattered around the country. From Cemlyn on Anglesey to the Newport Wetlands, from Stackpole in Pembrokeshire to the Dee Estuary,...
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<p>With over 250 contributors, this generous selection of poetry by women with an emphasis on twentieth-century poetry in English features poets from the USA, Canada, England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Australia, and New Zealand. Arranged by thematic chapters that touch on various aspects of modern life, this anthology aims to be a...
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<p>The murder of God-fearing, bible-quoting, partially deaf Thomas Thomas at the branch of Star Stores he managed in Garnant, South Wales has remained an unsolved mystery since it happened in 1921. His body was found on the morning of Sunday February 13<sup>th</sup>, his head smashed, his throat cut and with a stab wound to the...
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