Ha-ha: Margam Revisited

Karen Ingham

Margam Park was the ancestral home of the Fox Talbots, of whom Henry was a pioneering photographer. Some of the earliest photographic images were made there. Steel made Margam Park, whose gothic mansion looks down on the town of Margam ...

The Hand Glass

Frances Sackett

A stunning collection of short stories beautifully written by a craftsman of words. These stories record the turning points in life, the moments which give understanding or point to a new...

Hearst’s Other Castle

Enfys McMurray

A fascinating insight into the Hollywood lifestyle of a man whose desires knew no barriers and an extraordinary chapter in the life of an historic castle, this book is the story of William Randolph Hearst’s purchase in 1925 of St Donat’s Castle on the south Wales coast. Indulging his love of the mediaeval, he also provided an exotic house for Marion Davies, his film star companion …

Heaven’s Gate

Tony Curtis

Heaven’s Gate is the eighth collection for Seren by one of Wales’ best poets. Formally astute, subtle and persuasive in tone, evincing enviable clarity and insight, these poems address subject matter as diverse as forest fires...

Henry Vaughan

Stevie Davies


There is no portrait of Metaphysical poet Henry Vaughan (1621-95), and little documentation of his life. However, at the tercentenary of his death his writing remains as influential as ever and the writer continues to fascinate ...

Herbert Howells

Paul Spicer

Composer, organist, teacher, writer and broadcaster, Herbert Howells (1892-1983) is a major figure in English music. His three choral masterpieces, Hymnus Paradisi, the Stabat Mater and Missa Sabrinensis, are classics, while his ecclesiastical music - quite possiblly sung daily in Britain - is the greatest contribution to Anglican Church music of the twentieth century ...

Here + Now

Iwan Bala

The visual arts in Wales are in ferment. Here and Now is a timely and in-depth consideration of the practise of individual artists and the infrastructure in which they operate.

Hey Fatman

Robert Minhinnick

This new collection by Robert Minhinnick is full of the rich, sometimes strange, always telling, detail that we have come to expect from one of Britain’s most compelling poets ...

The Hook

Duncan Bush

The powerful early poems of Duncan Bush are now available in this volume incorporating his two prize-winning collections Aquarium (1983) and Salt (1985) together with several poems published in pamphlet form at the time of...

Housman, A. E.

Keith Jebb


The poetry of A.E. Housman is being redisovered. His volume A Shropshire Lad led him to be considered the finest poet in England. Housman’s work, popular, accessible, pessimistic, fell from favour in the post-war period but as his times are reassessed there is a growing interest in his authentic voice ...