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New Stories from the Mabinogion Festival Tour
This spring will see Owen Sheers and Russell Celyn Jones touring some of the UK’s most prominent literary festivals to talk about their novellas White Ravens and The Ninth Wave. Owen and Russell will visit a number of literary festivals - see our events page for more information on each event, and don’t miss this chance to see these two great authors in action.
New & Forthcoming Titles
Inroads
Carolyn Jess-CookeThis debut collection from Seren, Inroads, showcases a startling new talent. Carolyn Jess-Cooke has a sophisticated poetic intelligence as well as a great sense of fun. Readers will enjoy discovering this striking and versatile new voice …
Inroads will be launched on Thursday 11th March, 6pm at the
City Library, Newcastle Upon Tyne. All welcome. For more info contact Tori at Seren torikt@seren-books.com
Touch
Graham MortAn absorbing and masterly short-story collection from Bridport Prize-winning author Graham Mort. From the snow-bound dales of northern England to the heat of Africa, these stories display a sensitivity to nature and to human relationships.
PUBLICATION, 3rd MARCH, AVAILABLE TO PREORDER.
Llandaff Cathedral
Nick Lambert (Ed.)This is the first new book to be published about Llandaff
cathedral for more than a century. Accessibly written for the lay reader, the book is lavishly illustrated with line drawings, plans, and archive and contemporary photographs. The research for the book has brought to light fascinating, never before seen images from the cathedral archive and elsewhere…
PUBLICATION 10th MARCH, AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER.
Slanderous Tongues: Essays on Welsh Poetry in English 1970-2005
Daniel Williams (Ed.)Lively and informed, provocative and perceptive, this specially
commissioned book is a superb guide to English language poetry in Wales in the last forty years. It will be invaluable for students from year 12 to graduate level, and their teachers and lecturers, in addition to the general reader …
PUBLICATION 20th MARCH, AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER.
Zen Cymru
Peter FinchZen Cymru is the new collection of poems by that master of
modern angst, Peter Finch. Not one for quiet meditations, this
voice is: loud, bewildered, satirical, furious, sad, fearful and
funny. Formal innovation is allied with themes that are resonant and deeply humane. Zen Cymru will win yet more fans to the Finch cult …
“a delight, continuously inventive, truthful, intelligent, as funny
as Buster Keaton or Dafydd ap Gwylym, and as sad.” – William
Scammell, Independent on Sunday.
PUBLICATION 5th APRIL, AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER.
