The Mirror Trade

Zoë Skoulding

The title poem of this collection is set in Murano, home to the Venetian glass-making industry. The alchemical processes of mirror-making, its ’furnaces and transubstantiations, / amalgams of tin and quicksilver’ become a guiding metaphor...

Monica

Saunders Lewis

Opinion on Monica has been deeply divided since its publication in 1930. Saunders Lewis’s first novel was fiercely attacked by Welsh-speaking critics for its portrayal of sexual obsession and manipulation. For the first time the psychology which was such a feature of the work of contemporary authors was brought into Welsh fiction ...

Moontan

Don Rodgers

In the title poem, the protagonist basks by moonlight, becoming paler and paler until suffused with a strange bliss, an eerie spiritual purity, for ’night’s the time when inspiration’s filtered through the dark / and...

More Wild Tracks

Trevor Fishlock

Following the success of the first Wild Tracks book, Trevor Fishlock sets off again in search of Wales and its wonderful surprises. With his keen instinct for history, humour and human interest he presents a dozen new journeys based on his popular HTV series ...

The Movement of Bodies

Sheenagh Pugh

Like the protagonist in the title poem of Sheenagh Pugh’s tenth collection - a mathematician startled to find him self in love - we are led into these poems by apparently straightforward tales that swerve into lyricism or surprise us with paradox …



“This is a very strong ending for The Movement of Bodies and it reveals that when Sheenagh Pugh is at her best, she is certainly a very fine poet.” Sarah Kennedy, West Batch, March 08

Mr Cassini

Lloyd Jones

WINNER OF WALES BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2007
Seren is excited to announce the publication of Mr Cassini a remarkable follow-up to the award-winning Mr Vogel.

Mr Cassini  is an amazing journey through the geography of one man’s troubled mind as he tries to recover the lost years of his childhood …

Mr Roopratna’s Chocolate: The Winning Stories from the Rhys Davies Competition

The thirteen prize-winners in the 1999 Rhys Davies Short Story Competition offer a variety which couldn’t have been constructed by a commissioning editor. Judges Leslie Thomas, Clare Morgan and Herbert Williams have chosen across a wide range of authors, subjects and styles marked by the single common factor of excellent writing …

Mr Vogel

Lloyd Jones

"ONE OF THE MOST REMARKABLE BOOKS EVER WRITTEN ON THE SUBJECT OF WALES." So said Jan Morris of Lloyd Jones’ extraordinary debut novel, Mr Vogel. Acclaimed novelist Iain Sinclair, meanwhile, has described it as "the tour-guide Wales has been waiting for." One of the most original and engaging novels to appear from - and about - Wales in recent years, Mr Vogel is all the more remarkable for the author’s own amazing story …

Multiverse

Don Rodgers

Playful, experimental, intense, ironic, these strikingly original poems by Don Rodgers are evidence of a passionate sensibility that delights in a vocabulary as sumptuous as the gardens he writes about. A cool honesty, quiet humour...

My People

Caradoc Evans

The appearance of My People in 1915 caused a literary sensation. In England critics praised it as a work of art comparable with Zola and new writers such as Joyce …