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<p><em>A Watchful Astronomy</em> by Paul Deaton is the thoughtful debut poetry collection by this already well-regarded author who has published his work in national magazines like <em>The Spectator</em>, and <em>London Magazine</em> as well as in more literary journals like the <em>PN Review. </...
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<p>The poems in Robert Walton’s <em>Sax Burglar Blues</em> range from vivid memories of childhood, such as ‘Twm Siôn Cati’ where a teacher ‘wiry-haired, fierce-eyed’ brings a fictional villain to life, banging out rhythms with her shoe on the floor of a Cardiff classroom...
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<p><strong>‘<em>The Lovely Disciplines</em> is a fascinating grove of acutely astute observations, where life and its slant significances flit, half-hidden, among the leaves. </strong>’<strong> – Mario Petrucci</strong></p><p><strong>‘Careful and...
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<p><strong>‘A book of great energy’ – Katherine Stansfield</strong></p><p>Graham Mort writes beautifully about North Yorkshire, but the poems in his tenth collection, <em>Black Shiver Moss</em>, include pieces about landscapes and peoples as distant as South Africa and as...
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<p><strong>‘Here is a riotous, cacophonous and wonderful book. Here is an important new voice in British poetry.’<br />– Jonathan Edwards, author of <em>My Family and Other Superheroes</em>.</strong></p><p> </p><p><em>This Is Not a Rescue</...
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<p><em>Brood</em> is the new pamphlet from poet Rhian Edwards. Winner of all three categories of Wales Book of the Year in 2013 for her debut poetry collection, <em><a href="https://www.serenbooks.com/productdisplay/clueless-dogs">Clueless Dogs</a>,</em> Bridgend-born and based Edwards is known...
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<p><strong>‘It’s impossible to read this collection without being moved’ – New Welsh Review</strong></p><p><strong>‘This is a beautifully structured pamphlet that offers the reader a deeply felt sufficiency’ – WriteOutLoud</strong></p...
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<p><strong>‘With her keen senses, she celebrates nature in all its glory. ’ – Disclaimer Magazine</strong></p><p><strong>‘Powerful and tender’ – Mslexia</strong></p><p> </p><p><em>Basic Nest...
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<p>There is a beautiful ruthlessness to the poetry of Siobhán Campbell. Her new collection, <em>Heat Signature</em>, from Seren, is composed in her characteristically spikey voice: infused with an intelligence that resists easy answers to the conundrums that have faced her Irish homeland, but also suffused with a grudging...
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<p>Rhiannon Hooson is a gifted young poet born in mid-Wales and currently living in the Welsh Marches. <em>The Other City</em> is her debut collection of poems.</p><p>Sharply focused, beautifully resonant, deeply felt, these poems tend to travel in distinct streams: some reference and re-make narratives from classical...
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<p><strong>‘His energy, inventiveness and human sympathy make him one of the most exciting poets of his generation.’ – Merryn Williams</strong></p><p> </p><p>Seren is honoured by our long association with the Welsh poet Tony Curtis and we are proud to be publishing,...
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<p>Deryn Rees-Jones’s new book, <em>What It’s Like to Be Alive: Selected Poems</em>, marks a mid-career milestone in the life of this highly-acclaimed writer. From the poems written in her teens and early twenties included in her exciting debut <em>The Memory Tray</em> to her most recent...
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<p><strong>Shortlisted for the Ted Hughes Award 2016</strong></p><p> </p><p><strong>‘The Immigration Handbook was certainly the most moving and inspiring book of poems I read last year. It really is a major book of political poems; I find it hard to think of a comparably successful...
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<p><strong>‘The most striking thing about the collection is its range, its adventurousness, its willingness to go almost anywhere in the quest for a different slant on poetry’ – The North</strong></p><p><strong>‘This is a confronting collection, offering many challenges...
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<p style="margin-left:18.0pt"><strong>‘Remarkable and rewarding’ – Artemis</strong></p><p style="margin-left:18.0pt"><strong>‘This is a stunning collection.’ – Write Out Loud</strong></p><p style="margin-left:18....
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<p>Winner of the <em>Mslexia</em> magazine pamphlet competition, poet Ilse Pedler often writes from her perspective as a working Veterinary Surgeon. From her earliest days as a student of Applied Zoology at Bangor University, where she worked with hill sheep and had to visit an abattoir in Caernarfon, she has been involved at...
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<p><strong><em>‘A Boat Called Annalise</em> is a triumphant collection of poetry, marking a new embarkation for Hjelmgaard as a poet. It’s a collection which can be read time and time again, and will especially be appreciated by readers looking for new beginnings, those experiencing life’s...
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<p><strong>‘Judy Brown’s deliciously tactile Crowd Sensations ... quietly twists concrete subjects from a cricket umpire to a cockroach into unsettling new shapes, a “mutable alphabet”.’ – The Telegraph</strong></p><p> </p><p>Poet Judy...
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<p><strong>‘Refreshingly innovative’ – Planet</strong></p><p> </p><p><em>Masculine Happiness</em> is the provocative debut poetry collection by David Foster-Morgan. Born and based in Wales, Foster-Morgan has long been a presence in the poetry world, having...
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<p>Tamar Yoseloff is a poet whose career has been profoundly influenced by the visual arts. <em>A Formula for Night: New and Selected Poems</em> is the eagerly awaited summation of her work, encompassing selections from four published print volumes: <em>Sweetheart, Barnard’s Star, Fetch</em> and <em>...
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<p>Simon Turner’s <em>Works on Paper </em>is the winner of the Poetry Wales Purple Moose Prize for 2013.</p><p>Judges Zoê Skoulding and John Barnie made their choice of the best collection of poems, submitted anonymously, from an extensive entry. The winner recieves £250 plus publication.</p...
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<p>Rosie Shepperd’s debut poetry collection,<em>The Man at the Corner Table</em>, crackles with the unexpected. The voice is one of urban sophistication; a merciless charm that teases and tempts us with sensual evocations of food and place. The reader is surprised with tastes, scents, colours and textures. There is a...
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<p>Perceptive, persuasive and intricately made, the poems of Kate Bingham’s third collection, <em>Infragreen</em>, take the reader on a startling and unfamiliar journey through everyday experiences and phenomena. Her keen eye, reflectiveness and quiet wit endow her subjects with a shimmering freshness.<br /><br...
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<p><strong>‘These poems are moving and magnificent. Kim Moore deserves a wide audience.’ – The Daily Mail</strong></p><p> </p><p>Kim Moore, in her lively debut poetry collection, <em>The Art of Falling</em>, sets out her stall in the opening poems, firmly...
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