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<p>In a case which shocked the country, Mandy Power, her bed-ridden mother and her two young daughters were battered to death in a ferocious attack during the early hours, in June 1999. The crime sparked the largest criminal investigation ever mounted in Wales yet to public dismay the police made little progress.</p><p>...
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<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 sixth century to the late twentieth...
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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 really clever look both at Larkin, at Hull, at the 1950s’ – Michael Arditti on BBC Radio 4</strong></p><p><strong>‘Jonathan Tulloch gets the claustrophobia, and grey crippling littleness, in the physicalities of 1950s Britain and the grouchy, misanthropic...
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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>In <em>Dark Land, Dark Skies</em>, astronomer Martin Griffiths subverts conventional astronomical thought by eschewing the classical naming of constellations and investigating Welsh and Celtic naming. Ancient peoples around the world placed their own myths and legends in the heavens, though these have tended to become lost...
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<p><strong>‘As bracing as a lungful of salt sea air’ – BBC <em>Wildlife</em> magazine</strong></p><p><strong>‘Alexander’s writing is captivating. It is experiential, fresh, and alive’ – Wales Arts Review</strong></p>...
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<p><strong>‘Dark and rich, The Women of Versailles is filled with political intrigue, sexual awakening, and the roots of revolution.’ – Peggy Riley</strong></p><p><strong>‘[<em>The Women of Versailles</em>] demonstrates the power of great storytelling and...
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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>‘This is a truly inspiring collection, all the more so for its wit and its grit, its poetry and its honesty; here we have women producing ‘good art’ despite – and often because of – ‘the pram in the hall.’<br />– Shelley Day</...
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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><strong>‘Heart-breaking and tender, Maggie Harris uses her powerful voice to explore hidden experiences’ – Disclaimer Magazine</strong></p><p> </p><p>Maggie Harris’ stories are informed by the Caribbean, where she was born, and Britain where she has lived...
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<p>Revisiting his native city, Ian Spring’s new book charts how it has changed over the last forty years. In <em>Real Glasgow</em> he visits the city’s landmarks, and also his personal landmarks, overlaying the current map of Glasgow with the map in his memory.</p><p>Among the shipyards of Govan,...
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