The Blood Choir

Tim Liardet

SHORTLISTED FOR THE T.S. ELIOT PRIZE 2006

Tim Liardet’s masterly new collection, The Blood Choir, will surprise readers with its dramatic subject matter: teaching poetry in prison. An acutely observed incident is recalled and given a multitude of perspectives, each perspective resounding with an emotional corollary ...

 

The Bloodstream

Ceri Meyrick

This is the first in a series of SEREN POETS volumes, featuring the work of five poets. Four are collected here for the first time: Wayne Burrows, Rose Flint, Lucien Jenkins and Merryn Williams. The...

The Blue Book

Owen Sheers

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...

Blue Horse of Morning

Rose Flint

Blue Horse of Morning is Rose Flint’s first full collection of poems. From wild love poems where angels float above hedgerows, to poignant elegies for relatives, to intense meditations on social and environmental themes, these poems promise to surprise and inspire ...

Blue Sky July

Nia Wyn

Book of the Month on BBC Radio 5 for October 2007
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Radio 4 Book of the Week; Featured in the Daily Mail  and The Guardian; WH Smith’s ’Book of the Month’ in Wales for October 2007.

“This is an astonishing book…she has succeeded brilliantly, and in the process brought us a wonderful story, beautifully told, about an astonishing little boy and his amazing mother.” – Rosita Sweetman, Sunday Independent, Jan 08

“This book, which one almost hesitates to call a novel, is a tribute to the power of maternal love and the indomitable spirit of a small boy and his mother. Despite the tragedy of its subject matter it is a novel of optimism and hope.”  – Gillian Rowlands, Cambria, April 08

“It’s the strangest time – a birth – for life to start falling apart”

Set between the summers of 1998 and 2005 in Cardiff, Blue Sky July follows the story of a mother whose child suffers a devastating brain injury. It traces her journey into a world hidden away in society’s pockets as she battles against impossible odds to heal him…

This book will challenge your heart and change your views.

There is a huge media buzz surrounding Blue Sky July at the moment; it has been featured in The Guardian, Daily Mail, Western Mail, South Wales Echo, Wales on Sunday, Good Housekeeping, Wedi 3, BBC Wales Today  and BBC website. There will be more press coverage to come, so keep checking the website for updates…

Listen again to the BBC World Service interview with Nia by clicking here

"A heartbreaking tour-de-force that is taking the literary world by storm." The Daily Mail

The Burning Ashes of Time: From Steamer Point to Tiger Bay

Patricia Aithie

The discovery of a traditional Welsh blanket in the palace of the former ruler of Yemen took Patricia Aithie on a fascinating journey of discovery...

Burning the Bracken

Amy Wack

This anthology presents the forty-six poets published by Seren in its first fifteen years. From new poets to a Nobel nominee they represent a wide range of styles and interests from a narrower geographical area, largely Wales and the borders...

C’mon City

Grahame Lloyd

Cardiff City are the only team to have taken the F.A.Cup out of England (in 1927). No club has come closer (0.024 of a goal) to winning football’s top division and they took part in the first Cup Final to be broadcast live on radio, as well as the first closed-circuit television transmission of a League game ...

Capel Sion

Caradoc Evans

Caradoc Evans is perhaps the most controversial writer Wales has ever produced. His first book, My People, met with outrage from the pulpit and the popular press, was banned in Cardiff, but also earned Evans comparison with Zola, Joyce and Lawrence ...