Welcome to The Seren Poetry Podcast, a series of conversations and readings with Seren poets. In this episode we talk to Nerys Williams about her explosive third collection ‘Republic’. ‘Republic’ opens a window on life in rural west Wales during the 1980s and 90s when arts and culture boomed. English and Welsh-language post-punk bands, politics, feminism and family life are thrown together on the page as the poet questions what constitutes a republic? Nerys Williams’s fir...

Welcome to Season Two of the Seren Poetry Podcast. The Seren Poetry Podcast is a podcast dedicated to poetry and poets. In our second series we’ll speak to 6 Seren poets and hear them read their work. We’ll talk influences, writing techniques and inspiration. Focussing on recent Seren collections, we’ll go in-depth with our poets on the themes they have chosen to write about and the people, events and other elements that have influenced them. Our full podcast fe...

Welcome to The Seren Poetry Podcast, a series of conversations and readings with Seren poets. In this episode, we talk to Vanessa Lampert about her debut collection Say It With Me which explores themes of family, the everyday and loss. She discusses how writing can be an act of remembrance when living with grief, and how certain animals can be symbols of hope. Vanessa Lampert is an acupuncturist and poet from Oxfordshire. She has an MA in Writing Poetry from Newcastle Univ...

Welcome to Season Two of the Seren Poetry Podcast. The Seren Poetry Podcast is a podcast dedicated to poetry and poets. In our second series we’ll speak to 6 Seren poets and hear them read their work. We’ll talk influences, writing techniques and inspiration. Focussing on recent Seren collections, we’ll go in-depth with our poets on the themes they have chosen to write about and the people, events and other elements that have influenced them. Our fifth podcast o...

Welcome to The Seren Poetry Podcast, a series of conversations and readings with Seren poets. In this edition we talk to Judy Brown about her third collection ‘Lairs’. Describing it as the ‘angriest’ of her three books so far, Judy discusses the lair as a place of restriction or a confined space, her residency at Exeter University’s Institute of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, and other underlying themes from the book such as ‘pivotal change’. Judy Brown is an award-wi...

Welcome to Season Two of the Seren Poetry Podcast. The Seren Poetry Podcast is a podcast dedicated to poetry and poets. In our second series we’ll speak to 6 Seren poets and hear them read their work. We’ll talk influences, writing techniques and inspiration. Focussing on recent Seren collections, we’ll go in-depth with our poets on the themes they have chosen to write about and the people, events and other elements that have influenced them. Our fourth podcast ...

Welcome to The Seren Poetry Podcast, a series of conversations and readings with Seren poets. In this episode we speak to North Wales-based poet Glyn Edwards about his collection, ‘In Orbit’ which is a sustained narrative of love, loss and longing. Using a variety of innovative forms, the collection explores grief and how we come to terms with losing someone close to us. The natural world offers sustenance and a new perspective in the face of intense emotions as a man struggles to come...

Welcome to Season Two of the Seren Poetry Podcast. The Seren Poetry Podcast is a podcast dedicated to poetry and poets. In our second series we’ll speak to 6 Seren poets and hear them read their work. We’ll talk influences, writing techniques and inspiration. Focussing on recent Seren collections, we’ll go in-depth with our poets on the themes they have chosen to write about and the people, events and other elements that have influenced them. Our third podcast o...

Welcome to The Seren Poetry Podcast, a series of conversations and readings with Seren poets. In this episode we talk to Rachael Clyne about identity, belonging and self-acceptance, three central themes from her collection ‘You’ll Never Be Anyone Else’. Throughout the book, Rachel uses playful wit, and colourful imagery to explore Jewish and lesbian identity through various stages of life and consider what it takes to reconcile being different. Rachael Clyne is a poet fro...

Welcome to Season Two of the Seren Poetry Podcast. The Seren Poetry Podcast is a podcast dedicated to poetry and poets. In our second series we’ll speak to 6 Seren poets and hear them read their work. We’ll talk influences, writing techniques and inspiration. Focussing on recent Seren collections, we’ll go in-depth with our poets on the themes they have chosen to write about and the people, events and other elements that have influenced them. Our second podcast ...

Welcome to The Seren Poetry Podcast, a series of conversations and readings with Seren poets. In the first episode of series 2, we talk to Rhiannon Hooson about her collection ‘Goliat’, the long-awaited follow up to her Wales Book of the Year shortlisted debut ‘The Other City’. Full of vivid imagery, pointed observations and informed by a deep sense of history, these poems offer absorbing stories of a precarious world on the brink of climate emergency. We chat to her about her fascinat...

Welcome to Season Two of the Seren Poetry Podcast. The Seren Poetry Podcast is a podcast dedicated to poetry and poets. In our second series we’ll speak to 6 Seren poets and hear them read their work. We’ll talk influences, writing techniques and inspiration. Focussing on recent Seren collections, we’ll go in-depth with our poets on the themes they have chosen to write about and the people, events and other elements that have influenced them. Our first podcast w...

Welcome to The Seren Poetry Podcast, a series of conversations and readings with Seren poets. In this edition we speak with Kim Moore, winner of the Forward Prize for Best Collection 2022. Her winning collection All The Men I Never Married is pointedly feminist, challenging and keenly aware of the contradictions and complexities of desire. The 48 numbered poems take us through a gallery of exes and significant others where we encounter rage, pain, guilt, and love and the ‘easy ...

Welcome to The Seren Poetry Podcast, a series of conversations and readings with Seren poets. In this edition we speak with poet Eric Ngalle Charles. Eric Ngalle Charles was born in the west African state of Cameroon, a country rich in mythology and natural beauty, but with a troubled colonial history. Arriving in Wales as a near-penniless migrant, after being trafficked to Russia by a criminal gang, he has remade his life as a poet/writer, and dazzling performer of his own work. In thi...

Our fifteenth preview podcast features Eric Ngalle Charles introducing and reading his poem ‘Homeland’, the title poem from his debut collection. The poem is read by Eric and was recorded on location at the Seren office in Brigend. Listen to our in-depth interview with Eric in the next edition of The Seren Poetry Podcast, due to be released on Thursday 24th November. The Seren Poetry Podcast is a new podcast dedicated to poetry and poets. Over 9 weeks we’ll speak to 9 poet...

Welcome to The Seren Poetry Podcast, a series of conversations and readings with Seren poets. In this edition we speak with poet Rosalind Hudis about her collection Restorations. Rosalind Hudis grew up in Suffolk but now lives in West Wales with her partner and family. A one-time accordion player in a gypsy band, Rosalind now works as a freelance writer, editor, reviewer and tutor. Restorations is a journey into what it means to preserve – a monument, a moment, a life...

Our fourteenth preview podcast features Rosalind Hudis reading her poem ‘Insulation’ from her collection Restorations. The poem is read by Rosalind and was recorded via Zoom so we apologise if the sound quality isn't always perfect. Listen to our in-depth interview with Rosalind in the next edition of The Seren Poetry Podcast, due to be released on Thursday 17th November. The Seren Poetry Podcast is a new podcast dedicated to poetry and poets. Over 9 weeks we’ll speak to 9...

Welcome to The Seren Poetry Podcast, a series of conversations and readings with Seren poets. Some of the poems featured in this episode contain swearing. If you are likely to be offended by this please avoid this podcast In this edition we speak with poet Ben Wilkinson about his second collection Same Difference. Born in the Midlands, Ben now lives in Sheffield. His poems, criticism and journalism regularly appear in national publications including The Guardian, The Poetry Revie...

Our thirteenth preview podcast features Ben Wilkinson reading his poem ‘Nightingale’ from his second collection Same Difference. The poem is read by Ben Wilkinson and was recorded at his home in Sheffield. Listen to our in-depth interview with Ben in the next edition of The Seren Poetry Podcast, due to be released on Thursday 10th November. The Seren Poetry Podcast is a new podcast dedicated to poetry and poets. Over 9 weeks we’ll speak to 9 poets and hear them read their work.&...

Welcome to The Seren Poetry Podcast, a series of conversations and readings with Seren poets. In this edition we speak with poet and novelist Carolyn Jess-Cooke about her third collection We Have to Leave the Earth which considers themes of the environment and motherhood. Carolyn Jess-Cooke was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland and is currently reader in Creative Writing at the University of Glasgow. She has published 15 books in 23 languages and won numerous awards, including an...