Seren Poets 2

Ceri Meyrick

This is the second volume in the Seren Poets series, which aims to introduce new poets to a wider audience. It follows the pattern set in the first volume, The Bloodstream, of presenting three poets...

seren selections

Amy Wack

This volume begins a series of compact anthologies from Seren featuring new poetry.  We’ve chosen some of the freshest voices, with an emphasis on those from Wales.  These are mostly young writers yet to publish first collections.

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The Shakespeare Factory (Three Plays)

Dic Edwards

New Plays for Young People: The Shakespeare Factory must produce five-minute video versions of Shakespeare’s plays. Will factory manager Gillian Brutus get the videos to the Government Officer on time? Shop Steward Jack Cash puts up a fight, and the actors are unruly and rebellious ...

Shifts

Christopher Meredith


Against the background of a declining steel town, Shifts charts the lives of four closely bound characters, Jack, Keith, Rob and Judith in a story of grief, love, work and betrayal. When the plant closes all four are forced to take control of their lives. The men look to their work and to the past for explanation, while Judith seeks an answer in herself and those around her ...

The Shop

Emyr Humphreys

Eddie Lloyd, troubled son of the famous Welsh actor Orlando Lloyd is introduced to ambitious film-maker Bethan Mair Nichols, and immediately finds himself captivated by the intense young woman.  It transpires that Bethan’s Great Aunt Sulwen has left her a derelict shop in rural Wales.  As the novel and their relationship progresses, Bethan’s legacy becomes increasingly contentious, until a brutal assault allows the couple to reassess their fraught relationship ...

A Short Book About Love

Nicholas Murray

Love in all its guises is the subject of Nick Murray’s wise and witty fiction. Woven into a comic re-telling of the classic legend of Tristan and Iseut - one of the world’s greatest love stories - is the story of Felix, growing up in post-war Liverpool and, in the wake of a father’s death, trying to come to terms with the meaning of what Philip Larkin, called ’that much-mentioned brilliance, love’ ...

The Show-Me State

Lloyd Rees

When Arthur Noone arrives at South Missouri State University to research American usage of English, words almost fail to describe the fix in which he finds himself. Bored with academe and escaping a broken marriage, the weak-willed Arthur is desperate to have a good time with American beer and women. In a fruitless wait for a new woman friend he unwittingly witnesses a gang murder of the wrong man ...

Sidereal Time

Christopher Meredith

Clint and Dustin are coconuts, 10L have turned into three-toed sloths, Gron is becoming Zero Mostel, the lower sixth is an airliner of people about to fall out of the sky, and you, you’ve turned into a three-eyed Martian who speaks a nounless language and has forgotted to pay the child minder ...

Signs Round a Dead Body

Deryn Rees-Jones

Signs Round a Dead Body is the eagerly awaited follow-up to Deryn Rees-Jones’s widely acclaimed first collection, The Memory Tray. Her humour, sharp technique and preoccupation with the dilemmas of women are as apparent as...

Sing for the Taxman

Sheenagh Pugh

Her characteristic wit and precision are fully in evidence in Sheenagh Pugh’s latest collection of poems, Sing for the Taxman. Dedicated to the proposition that poetry must, first of all, entertain the reader, these poems...