You may have noticed that our website looks a little different! We’ve been working away on a new brand and are excited to finally share our refreshed look www.serenbooks.com.

📖 Professor Deryn Rees-Jones (@notjustdancing.bsky.social) is giving the Matt Simpson Memorial lecture and reading at the Open Eye Gallery in Liverpool on October 30th, 6-8pm @serenbooks.bsky.social Find out more here: Https://www.creativetourist.com/event/deryn-rees-jones/

Dr Juliette Wood provides an illuminating introduction to Efa Lois’ book ‘Gwrachod Cymru – Welsh Witches’. Efa retells the stories, bringing them to life through vibrant illustrations. www.serenbooks.com/book/gwracho... @serenbooks.bsky.social @cuhistarchrel.bsky.social

Dr Juliette Wood yn rhoi cyflwyniad addysgiadol i lyfr Efa Lois ‘Gwrachod Cymru – Welsh Witches’. Mae Efa yn ailadrodd y straeon, gan ddod â nhw yn fyw trwy ddarluniau bywiog. www.serenbooks.com/book/gwracho... @serenbooks.bsky.social @cuhistarchrel.bsky.social

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Have you ever wondered what writers listen to when working on a book? In today’s guest post, @alhub.bsky.social shares some of the songs he listened to whilst writing his debut novel ‘Storm’ www.serenbooks.com/2025/10/gues.... Find his book in bookshops from today!

In @alhub.bsky.social’s scintillating debut the university town of Aberystwyth is held captive by a violent storm. With weird things happening all over town, Josephine is caught in the middle. But something is watching and it’s about to go walking again... Buy now www.serenbooks.com/book/storm/

We’re delighted that both Bethany Handley and @alisonbinney.bsky.social are Highly Commended in this year’s @forwardprizes.bsky.social www.serenbooks.com/2025/10/beth.... Their Highly Commended poems are both in the ‘Forward Book of Poetry 2026’.

You can now take @natholborow.bsky.social’s ‘Wild Running: South Wales’ with you on the go! Buy the ebook on our website through our partners Glassboxx or from your favourite ebook provider www.serenbooks.com/book/wild-ru...

Treat yourself to some new poetry this #NationalPoetryDay! There’s a whole range of great poetry books waiting to be discovered on our website www.serenbooks.com/books/poetry/

Happy #NationalPoetryDay! Let's hear it for the poets and poetry publishers who enrich our lives! Here are just a few to get us started ❤️ @serenbooks.bsky.social @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social @emiliejelinek.bsky.social @niaandthepoems.bsky.social @courtneyconrad.bsky.social @alisonbinney.bsky.social

Published today, ‘Gwrachod Cymru | Welsh Witches’ by Efa Lois is the perfect autumn read 🍂 ✨ This fascinating compendium explores the stories of over 100 witches from Welsh history & folklore, exposing the misogyny in their narratives & celebrating female power www.serenbooks.com/book/gwracho...

Absolutely loved this from @alisonbinney.bsky.social and @serenbooks.bsky.social. It’s so full of love.

In ‘Film & TV Places of Wales’ Celyn Jones and Frances Turpin zoom in on Wales’ cultural and artistic links to cinema exploring homegrown classics, TV favourites and Hollywood epics from Wales’ on-screen history. Publishing 20 October. Pre-order now www.serenbooks.com/book/film-tv...

From today you can hear @katrinanaomipoet.bsky.social talking about the poetry, wild swimming and ‘Battery Rocks’ on the BBC Countryfile #Plodcast. Listen here www.countryfile.com/podcast. Buy your copy of ‘Battery Rocks’ from your local bookshop!

✨WORKSHOPS NEXT WEEK✨ ✨'This is not a play: mixing up the genres' with Amanda Dalton Mon 29 Sept, 7pm ✨'Self-Portrait, with Poems' with Jonathan Edwards Tues 30 Sept, 11am Sign up here: buytickets.at/thepoetrybus... @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social @serenbooks.bsky.social

This week’s Friday Poem is ‘Testimony’ by @alisonbinney.bsky.social from her collection ‘The Opposite of Swedish Death Cleaning’ www.serenbooks.com/2025/09/frid...

Here's my 'short & sweet' poetry newsletter for Sept: info on 'dance as if' launch events in Cornwall & London @vervepoetrypress.bsky.social & recommending @mptmagazine.bsky.social Plus an article on how I write @serenbooks.bsky.social See mailchi.mp/10e91fb65935... #danceasif #poetry #howiwrite

So much looking forward to this! @serenbooks.bsky.social @livunienglish.bsky.social

Coming soon: Laura Wainwright’s debut poetry collection is a powerful exploration of resilience in the face of ecological and human crises. Publishing 15 October. Pre-order now www.serenbooks.com/book/the-sto...

“...an excellent present for anyone interested in a slightly offbeat view of Wales.” – Desmond Clifford reviews ‘Vanished Wales: Places Lost in Living Memory’ for @nation.cymru. Catch Carwyn Jones in conversation with Adeloa Dewis at #WaterstonesCardiff tomorrow, 9 September, to find out more!

Don’t forget you can pre-order ‘Wild Running’ on our website or in your local bookshop www.serenbooks.com/book/wild-ru...

I'll be running two online #creativewriting courses this autumn 🍁 createdtoread.com/more-online-... There's also a fee waiver scheme & free places for Aber uni students & staff! @serenbooks.bsky.social @aberenglishdept.bsky.social

This is an incredible, awe inspiring book @serenbooks.bsky.social #BookSky #poetry

Coming soon: This autumnal weather 🍂 has us excited to reveal the cover for Efa Lois’ new book ‘Gwrachod Cymru | Welsh Witches’! Publishing on 1 October, her illustrated guide to the witches of Wales is a must-read for anyone interested in Welsh history & folklore www.serenbooks.com/book/gwracho...

On Tuesday 9 September, Carwyn Jones will be at Waterstones Cardiff discussing his new book ‘Vanished Wales: Places Lost in Living Memory' with Adeloa Dewis, presenter of the ITV Wales TV show of the same name. Get tickets here www.waterstones.com/events/vanis...

I have a new #ekphrastic poem in the @ekphrasticreview.bsky.social responding to this painting by Gainsborough from the @amgueddfacymru.bsky.social collection - www.ekphrastic.net/the-ekphrast... @serenbooks.bsky.social

Alex Hubbard's debut 'Storm' is set to be disruptive, turbulent and mesmerising... Watch out! ⛈️ Preorder now from @serenbooks.bsky.social www.serenbooks.com/book/storm #WritingSky #BookSky #Aberystwyth

I'll be running 2 new online #creativewriting courses this autumn! 'Poetry Writing 1: Starting to Write' & 'Inspired by Art: Ekphrastic Poetry & Prose' are available to book now createdtoread.com/more-online-... Please share... #ekphrasis @serenbooks.bsky.social #ekphrasticpoetry #poetry

I know you’re enjoying the summer But there’s some bad weather coming Utterly delighted that my debut is available for pre-order from Seren’s website!

Coming soon: Alex Hubbard's scintillating debut novel ‘Storm‘ is a contemporary Gothic masterpiece which will leave you nostalgic for your small-town uni days. Pre-order online now www.serenbooks.com/book/storm/ @alhub.bsky.social

I found my @serenbooks.bsky.social book in London Review Bookshop 🩷

Hear me read 'Frog Song' through the Aftershock Review substack Along with my other new poems given a doorway to readers by @maxwallis.bsky.social, Frog Song is going to be in my 3rd collection Emergency Dream, publishing with @serenbooks.bsky.social in March 2026. #Swims #PondLife #BeMoreFrog

“...a wonderful act of cultural remembrance; and a plea to hold our heritage as sacred, now, before it, too, slips away.” – @mabjones.bsky.social reviews ‘Vanished Wales: Places Lost in Living Memory’ by Carwyn Jones in Buzz Magazine www.buzzmag.co.uk/vanished-wal.... Available in bookshops now.

Thrilled to have ‘Self-Portrait with Fire Ants’ in this special anthology Nature Matters edited by @monaarshiwrites.bsky.social & @karenmccarthywoolf.bsky.social a go-to text for teaching. Published by @faberbooks.bsky.social My poem is from my 2nd collection The Zoo Father @serenbooks.bsky.social

It is gorgeous to see portrait in mustard out and about 🩷 @serenbooks.bsky.social

I'm so excited to be launching my new poetry-film 'Fragments of Us' in Cardiff! www.eventbrite.com/e/fragments-... It responds to the creativity of museum visitors who contributed to an interactive #poetry display @amgueddfacymru.bsky.social #poetrycommunity #ekphrasis @serenbooks.bsky.social

This week’s Friday Poem is ‘One-Sided Conversation with a Hydrozoan’ by @katrinanaomipoet.bsky.social from her collection ‘Battery Rocks’ www.serenbooks.com/2025/08/frid...

Calling all readers, writers & bookworms 📚 Our annual Readership Survey is now open! You could win this fabulous book bundle, worth around £150, in return for around 20 minutes of your time. Make yourself a panad ☕ and take a look here forms.cloud.microsoft/r/EQDmqGvpfm.

New blog post! A review of 'Versus Versus: 100 Poems by Deaf, Disabled & Neurodivergent Poets' createdtoread.com/a-review-of-... with recommendations of other books on this theme published by @serenbooks.bsky.social & @lucentdreaming.bsky.social #poetry @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social

Peidiwch ag anghofio ymweld â stondin Cyngor Llyfrau Cymru yn yr Eisteddfod wythnos yma! Mae llawer o lyfrau o Gymru yno fel #LlyfrMis ‘Vanished Wales’. Don’t forget to visit the BCW stand at the Eisteddfod this week! There are lots of books from Wales there like #BookOfTheMonth ‘Vanished Wales’.

Enjoyed hearing @wendycaitlin.bsky.social read from 'Portrait in Mustard' last week @bookspacecardiff.bsky.social @serenbooks.bsky.social #thesealeychallenge #sealeychallenge

Delighted to be one of July’s bestselling titles @bookspacecardiff.bsky.social 🩷 available at this beautiful, independent bookshop and also @serenbooks.bsky.social 🩷

We’re excited to announce that Nathan Abrams, Katrina Moinet and Naomi Parsons are the three writers chosen from our recent Fiction & Non-Fiction Call-out to develop their book ideas into publications proposals! Find out more here www.serenbooks.com/2025/07/anno...

There are still some spaces left for this online workshop tomorrow with Jonathan Edwards on 'Writing Poems for Family and Loved Ones'. Book online here www.romalynante.com/event-detail.... @romalynante3.bsky.social

Three @serenbooks.bsky.social poets 🩷 @bookspacecardiff.bsky.social with @createdtoread.bsky.social and @tazrahman.bsky.social

Tomorrow night, Wednesday 23 July, catch Wendy Allen and Taz Rahman reading from their latest poetry collections at Book Space Cardiff! Tickets £4. Doors open 6:10 pm for 6:30 pm start. Find out more here www.bookspacecardiff.co.uk/products/wen...

Next week I’ll be reading from this book @bookspacecardiff.bsky.social on Wednesday along with @tazrahman.bsky.social, do come along. Book your tickets in advance to support this brilliant bookshop. You can buy our @serenbooks.bsky.social on the night 🩷

We’re delighted to see Abeer Ameer on the shortlist for the @forwardprizes.bsky.social Best Single Poem – Written! 🎉 Her poem ‘At Least’ was first published by @modronmagazine.bsky.social.