Seren books is pleased to announce the publication of From the Fortunate Isles: New and Selected Poems by Wales-born author Tony Curtis. Published in the year of the author’s 70th birthday, the book
Graham Mort’s masterly 10th collection of poetry, Black Shiver Moss (Seren), is packed with poems about his native northern counties of Lancashire, Yorkshire and Cumbria, as well as stunning evo
Emily Blewitt’s debut collection of poetry is This Is Not a Rescue (Seren). The Carmarthen-born young author writes beautifully considered poems about love and relationships (‘I Threw Myse
Seren books presents the debut collection from Rhiannon Hooson, a young poet based in the Welsh Marches. The Other City offers us elegant, artful verse of precision and insight. This is a poet that ca
Seren is more than delighted that the poet Katrina Naomi has joined our list. The Way the Crocodile Taught Me, is her vibrant, heartfelt and tragi-comic collection of poetry. In this book she reveals
Rosie Shepperd’s debut poetry collection, The Man at the Corner Table (Seren), crackles with the unexpected. The voice is one of urban sophistication; a merciless charm that teases and tempts us with
A rare collaboration between two eminent artists, this collection is comprised of stunning photographs and the thought-provoking poetry inspired by them. From warm portraits of rural Wales and a rauco
Dannie Abse, whose career as a poet spans sixty years, has made a huge contribution to the literature and literary life of Wales and to poetry and prose in the English language.This Sourcebook is an e
Inspired by the history and nature of the poet’s region of mid-Wales, this collection?recommended by the Poetry Book Society?communicates an established voice of distinction and quiet authority and sy
Spikey, provocative, declamatory, these energetic poems from Elizabeth Parker, In Her Shambles, her debut collection from Seren, sweep the reader along through their narratives, quite literally so in
Television naturalist Iolo Williams’ guide to Wales’ top 40 nature sites is fully illustrated by beautiful colour photographs of place and wildlife. The sites are spread across Wales and in Wild Place
Inspired by her years as an Immigration Caseworker to one of the most diverse inner-city areas in the UK, Caroline Smith has written a collection of poems, The Immigration Handbook, (Seren) that detai
Tamar Yoseloff’s A Formula for Night: New and Selected Poems from Seren includes dazzling new work as well as selections from her print collections and pieces from collaborations with artists. The tit
Forbidden Lives is a fascinating collection of portraits and discussions that aims to populate LGBT gaps in the history of Wales, a much neglected part of Welsh heritage. In it Norena Shopland reviews
Featuring images of the internationally famous Welsh cob, this photography collection captures the diversity of Wales’ equestrian world, celebrating the horse’s important role in history and their pro
Encompassing a millennium of churches around Wales—from tiny St. Govan’s tucked in its cliff-face, through ruined Llanthony and other abbeys, to the magnificence of the cathedrals at Llan
Dedicated to no less than five saints and the seat of the Archbishop of Wales, Llandaff cathedral has been the hub of the Church in Wales since the eleventh century. In this, the first book about it f
Try the Wilderness First is the story of controversial artist Eric Gill's artistic and religious community in the Black Mountains of Wales during the 1920s, told through the character and work of Gill
John Morris’s new book is an investigation into the Clydach murders in South Wales in 1999 in which Mandy Power, her mother and two daughters were battered to death. Morris contends that, althou
The tradition of Welsh poetry stretches back to the sixth century, making it one of the oldest living literatures in Europe. In Welsh Verse Tony Conran translates a selection from fourteen centuries o
This new, expanded edition of Welsh Quilts is an authoritative guide to the history and art of the quilt in Wales. Expert author Jen Jones has added many new, high quality colour images ? some never s
Masculine Happiness is the thoughtful and winning debut collection from the Wales-based poet David Foster-Morgan. Complex, ironic, layered, fashioned with an acute and subtle intelligence, these
Morlais is Alun Lewis's lost novel from the 1930s, a Lawrentian story of a young boy growing up in the poverty stricken industrial valleys of south Wales. Lewis (1915-1944) was the outstanding writer
The Road to Zagora is an unusual travelogue spanning India, Nepal, Syria, Turkey, Morocco, Peru, Equador and Wales which springs from Richard Collins’ compulsion to travel after he was diagnosed with
The old kingdom of Powys covers some of the most remote and thinly populated parts of Britain and this guidebook explores the towns and villages of this dramatic landscape in mid-Wales through the eye
The first decade of devolution in Wales has had it all. Since the narrow vote for the National Assembly there have been leadership battles, coalition governments, tabloid revelations, continuing shock
Ken Elias is one of the leading artists living and working in Wales. Born in Glynneath in 1944, he is part of that generation of artists of working-class origin influenced by a Fifties childhood and S
Based on the author’s visit in 1965, this unique volume is written as a love letter to the mid-Wales county of Radnorshire. Within its autobiographical frame, this account covers the history and relig
When injured war hero Tom Evans returns from the slaughter of France in 1917, the west Wales family farm of Hendre Ddu seems the perfect place to find peace.But life has moved on. Tom's sister, Catrin
Gwidion is a boy an the verge of manhood to whom 9/11 means nothing. But in 2084, the psychic shockwaves of an event that once shook the world are still felt in his village - all that is left of Wales
Kyffin Williams was the iconic painter of the Welsh landscape, his work hugely popular with collectors and the public. Yet what sort of man was this artist who defined Wales for many?Journalist Ian Sk
Brendan Stuart Burns is best known for his paintings over the last decade inspired by a small, isolated beach in west Wales. The paintings have won many accolades. They continue to evolve in style and
Encompassing a millennium of churches around Wales—from tiny St. Govan’s tucked in its cliff-face, through ruined Llanthony and other abbeys, to the magnificence of the cathedrals at Llan
This unorthodox travel guide to Cardiff, Wales, is part history, part topographical writing, and part traditional guidebook. Interspersed with quirky photographs and poems, this stunning and at times
Told?entirely in e-mails sent and received by Martin Davies, would-be author and frustrated corporate accountant, this debut novel is set on September 11, 2001, in Cardiff, Wales. In denial about his
"Capturing the essence of the River Wye from its source high in the mountains of mid-Wales to its entry into the sea under the towering medieval castle at Chepstow, photographer Barry Needle showcase
"This impressive debut includes poems on a wide range of themes: from recollections of a return to Fiji, to sharper memories of an adolescence in a rural town in Wales; from dark ruminations on farm l
Ross Cogan's collection Bragr (Old Norse for 'poetry'), brings us the voice of the Skald or Bard who reinterprets tales from Norse mythology for our times. As precise and beautifully colored as an ill
From the thumping heartbeat of the distance runner to the roar of soccer stadiums across the decades, Ben Wilkinson’s debut poetry collection, Way More Than Luck, confronts the struggles and pas
Paul Deaton’s eagerly awaited debut poetry collection, A Watchful Astronomy, collects many of the pieces that have appeared in magazines and in an early pamphlet, Black Knight (Eyewear). Deaton&
