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This podcast is produced by Alternative Stories, a spoken word production company specialising in literary podcasts and radio programmes. To find out more about Alternative Stories, follow or hire them please follow the links below

Contact them by email at office@alterantivestories.com

We hope you enjoyed the last episode of Season 2. If you’ve enjoyed listening along, don’t forget to also revisit Season 1 wherever you get your podcasts.

The Seren Poetry Podcast will return! Subscribe in your favourite podcast app to have all future editions delivered to your podcast feed the moment they are released.

en-gbDecember 21, 2023

Preview Six: 'Gwynfor' by Nerys Williams

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 featuring Nerys Williams and her collection Republic will be out on Thursday 21st December You can already listen to our interviews with Rhiannon Hooson, Rachael Clyne, Glyn Edwards , Judy Brown and Vanessa Lampert in our podcast feed.

Subscribe now by searching "The Seren Poetry Podcast" in your favourite podcast app to be alerted when new editions are released.

You can listen to the complete series one of the Seren Poetry Podcast now on all podcast platforms and find out more about Seren by visiting our website at https://www.serenbooks.com/

en-gbDecember 19, 2023

Glyn Edwards: 'In Orbit'

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 to terms with news of a beloved teacher’s death.

Glyn Edwards is a PhD researcher in ecopoetry at Bangor University. His first poetry collection ’Vertebrae’ was published by the Lonely Press. He co-edits Modron, a journal for environmental writing, and the Wild Words feature for North Wales Wildlife Trust. He is a former winner and trustee of the Terry Hetherington Award for Welsh young writers and works as a teacher in North Wales.

‘In Orbit’ is available in bookshops nationwide or from the Seren website https://www.serenbooks.com/book/in-orbit/

The podcast is presented by Rhian Edwards

The interviewer is Sarah Johnson

The interview recordings are by Sarah Johnson.

Production, sound design and editing are by Chris Gregory of Alternative Stories

You can find out more about Glyn Edwards by visiting his website https://www.glynedwardspoet.co.uk or following him on social media @glynfedwards

Other books by Glyn Edwards:

‘Vertebrae’ (The Lonely Crowd) https://thelonelycrowd.org/vertebrae-by-glyn-edwards/

Find out more about Seren and purchase books featured in this podcast by visiting the Seren website here https://www.serenbooks.com/

Follow Seren on social media

Contact them by email at seren@serenbooks.com

This podcast is produced by Alternative Stories, a spoken word production company specialising in literary podcasts and radio programmes. To find out more about Alternative Stories, follow or hire them please follow the links below
https://alternativestories.com/

Contact them by email at office@alterantivestories.com

Please join us next week for a conversation with poet Judy Brown about her collection ‘Lairs’. Subscribe in your favourite podcast app to have all future editions delivered to your podcast feed the moment they are released.

en-gbNovember 30, 2023

Preview Three: 'Tombolo' by Glyn Edwards

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 of season three which will feature a full-length interview with Glyn Edwards will be out on Thursday 30th November and we will have four further interviews with Seren poets in the series. You can already listen to our interviews with Rhiannon Hooson and Rachael Clyne in our podcast feed.

Subscribe now by searching "The Seren Poetry Podcast" in your favourite podcast app to be alerted when new editions are released.

You can listen to the complete series one of the Seren Poetry Podcast now on all podcast platforms and find out more about Seren by visiting our website at https://www.serenbooks.com/

en-gbNovember 28, 2023

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Eric Ngalle Charles : 'Homelands'

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 this conversation we chat to him about his debut poetry collection Homelands.

The podcast is presented by Rhian Edwards

The interviewer is Chris Gregory

Recordings, production, sound design and editing are by Chris Gregory of Alternative Stories

Recordings of Rhian Edwards are by Sarah Johnson

This conversation was recorded on location at the Seren office in Bridgend.

You can follow Eric on Twitter @yomadene https://twitter.com/yomadene

Other books by Eric Ngalle Charles:

‘I, Eric Ngalle’ (Parthian Books) https://www.parthianbooks.com/products/i-eric-ngalle-a-migrant

‘The 3 Molas’ (Gwasg Carreg Gwalch) https://www.waterstones.com/book/3-molas-the/mike-jenkins/eric-ngalle-charles/9781845277512

‘Hiraeth Erzolirzoli: A Wales – Cameroon Anthology’ (Hafan Books) https://hafanbooks.org/2020/09/23/bestsellers/

Find out more about Seren and purchase books featured in this podcast by visiting the Seren website here https://www.serenbooks.com/

Follow Seren on social media

Contact them by email at seren@serenbooks.com

This podcast is produced by Alternative Stories, a spoken word production company specialising in literary podcasts and radio programmes. To find out more about Alternative Stories, follow or hire them please follow the links below https://linktr.ee/AlternativeStories

Contact them by email at office@alternativestories.com

Please join us next week for the last conversation in our first series. We’ll be talking to Kim Moore, about her Forward Prize shortlisted collection All The Men I Never Married, which will be released on Thursday 1st December. Subscribe in your favourite podcast app to have all future editions delivered to your podcast feed the moment they are released.

Don’t forget to leave us a review is you like what you hear.

en-gbNovember 24, 2022

Preview Fifteen: ‘Homeland’ by Eric Ngalle Charles

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 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.

Recorded on location in our poets homes, at Seren’s headquarters and from the Wordsworth Centre in Grasmere, you’ll hear from some of the most important poets in the UK, each with an extended interview and a selection of their verse in high quality audio. We’ll speak to Polly Atkin, Kim Moore, Carolyn Jess-Cooke, Rhian Edwards, Eric Ngalle Charles, Ben Wilkinson and more.

The Seren Poetry Podcast is available now on all podcast platforms.

en-gbNovember 23, 2022

Rosalind Hudis : 'Restorations'

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-story, a poppy. It’s about the hunger to possess and the need to let go. Welding themes from art and history with the contemporary, there are poems about pigments and dictators, glue and glass houses, collections, crinolines, and barometers, and the vagaries of memory itself. Entwined, is a more personal story that tracks the loss of a parent to dementia. Also running through, is a theme of women eroding the straitjacket of gendered roles. Linking all is a play with colour, particularly blue, in all its stages from vital to decayed.

The podcast is presented by Rhian Edwards

The interviewer is Chris Gregory

Recordings, production, sound design and editing are by Chris Gregory of Alternative Stories

Recordings of Rhian Edwards are by Sarah Johnson

This conversation was recorded on Zoom. As with all video calls, the sound quality may not always be perfect. but we hope you’ll enjoy listening.

You can find out more about Rosalind’s poetry on her website https://rosalindhudis.wordpress.com/

Find out more about Seren and purchase books featured in this podcast by visiting the Seren website here https://www.serenbooks.com/

Follow Seren on social media

https://linktr.ee/AlternativeStories

Contact them by email at seren@serenbooks.com

This podcast is produced by Alternative Stories, a spoken word production company specialising in literary podcasts and radio programmes. To find out more about Alternative Stories, follow or hire them please follow the links below

Contact them by email office@alternativestories.com

Please join us next week for a conversation with Eric Ngalle Charles, about his collection Homelands, which will be released on Thursday 24th November. Subscribe in your favourite podcast app to have all future editions delivered to your podcast feed the moment they are released.

Don’t forget to leave us a review if you like what you hear.

en-gbNovember 17, 2022

Preview Fourteen: ‘Insulation’ by Rosalind Hudis

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 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.

Recorded on location in our poets homes, at Seren’s headquarters and from the Wordsworth Centre in Grasmere, you’ll hear from some of the most important poets in the UK, each with an extended interview and a selection of their verse in high quality audio. We’ll speak to Polly Atkin, Kim Moore, Carolyn Jess-Cooke, Rhian Edwards, Eric Ngalle Charles, Ben Wilkinson and more.

The Seren Poetry Podcast is available now on all podcast platforms.

en-gbNovember 16, 2022

Preview Thirteen: ‘Nightingale’ by Ben Wilkinson

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. 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.

Recorded on location in our poets homes, at Seren’s headquarters and from the Wordsworth Centre in Grasmere, you’ll hear from some of the most important poets in the UK, each with an extended interview and a selection of their verse in high quality audio. We’ll speak to Polly Atkin, Kim Moore, Carolyn Jess-Cooke, Rhian Edwards, Eric Ngalle Charles, Ben Wilkinson and more.

The Seren Poetry Podcast is available now on all podcast platforms.

en-gbNovember 09, 2022

Carolyn Jess-Cooke: 'We Have to Leave the Earth"

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 Eric Gregory Award from the Society of Authors, a Tyrone Guthrie Prize, a K Blundell Award, and she has won a Northern Writer’s Award three times.

Carolyn has a prestigious parallel career as the novelist C.J. Cooke. Her first novel The Guardian Angel’s Journal was an international bestseller. Her book The Lighthouse Witches was published in October 2021, was nominated for numerous prizes, was an international best seller, and is soon to be a major TV series. Her latest novel The Ghost Woods was published in 2022.

The podcast is presented by Rhian Edwards

The interviewer is Chris Gregory

Recordings, production, sound design and editing are by Chris Gregory of Alternative Stories

Recordings of Rhian Edwards are by Sarah Johnson

This conversation was recorded on location at Carolyn’s home near Glasgow.

You can find out more about Carolyn’s poetry and fiction on her website https://carolynjesscooke.com/

Find out more about Seren and purchase books featured in this podcast by visiting the Seren website here https://www.serenbooks.com/

Follow Seren on social media

https://linktr.ee/AlternativeStories

Contact them by email at seren@serenbooks.com

This podcast is produced by Alternative Stories, a spoken word production company specialising in literary podcasts and radio programmes. To find out more about Alternative Stories, follow or hire them please follow the links below

Contact them by email at office@alternativestories.com

Please join us next week for a conversation with Ben Wilkinson, about his collection Same Difference, which will be released on Thursday 10th November. Subscribe in your favourite podcast app to have all future editions delivered to your podcast feed the moment they are released.

Don’t forget to leave us a review is you like what you hear.

en-gbNovember 03, 2022

Preview Twelve : 'Now' by Carolyn Jess-Cooke

Our twelfth preview podcast features Carolyn Jess-Cooke reading her poem 'Now' from the collection 'We Have to Leave the Earth'. The poem was read by Carolyn and recorded on location at her home in Scotland.

Listen to our in-depth interview with Carolyn in which we discuss the climate crisis , the late 19th century feminist activist Josephine Butler, family and Carolyn's juggling of being a poet with her career as a successful novelist, academic and mother in our next episode which will be release on Thursday 3rd 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. 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.

Recorded on location in our poets homes, at Seren’s headquarters and from the Wordsworth Centre in Grasmere, you’ll hear from some of the most important poets in the UK, each with an extended interview and a selection of their verse in high quality audio. We’ll speak to Polly Atkin, Kim Moore, Carolyn Jess-Cooke, Rhian Edwards, Eric Ngalle Charles, Ben Wilkinson and more.

The Seren Poetry Podcast is available now on all podcast platforms.

en-gbNovember 02, 2022

Preview Ten: ‘Air Camera’ by Christopher Meredith

Our tenth preview podcast features Christopher Meredith talking about publishing his poetry collection Still and novel Please simultaneously. He also reads his poem ‘Air Camera’. The poem is read by Christopher Meredith and was recorded on location at the Seren office.

Listen to our in-depth interview with Christopher in the next edition of The Seren Poetry Podcast, due to be released on Thursday 20th October.

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. 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.

Recorded on location in our poets homes, at Seren’s headquarters and from the Wordsworth Centre in Grasmere, you’ll hear from some of the most important poets in the UK, each with an extended interview and a selection of their verse in high quality audio. We’ll speak to Polly Atkin, Kim Moore, Carolyn Jess-Cooke, Rhian Edwards, Eric Ngalle Charles, Ben Wilkinson and more.

The Seren Poetry Podcast is available now on all podcast platforms.

en-gbOctober 19, 2022

Ilse Pedler: 'Auscultation'

Welcome to The Seren Poetry Podcast, a series of conversations and readings with Seren poets.

In this edition we speak with poet and veterinary surgeon Ilse Pedler. Ilse lives and works in the Lake District trying to juggle writing with the unpredictability of sick animals. ‘Auscultation’ means listening and specifically, in medicine, listening to sounds that come from the body’s internal organs. If listening is a central theme of this collection, it is also about being heard. There are poems about waiting rooms and surgical instruments, about crisis calls, about overhearing farmers, pet owners and colleagues, as well as poems about surviving a stern childhood and being a stepmother.

The podcast is presented by Rhian Edwards
The interviewer is Chris Gregory
Recordings, production, sound design and editing are by Chris Gregory of Alternative Stories
Recordings of Rhian Edwards are by Sarah Johnson
This conversation was recorded on location at Wordsworth Grasmere in the Lake District.

You can find out more about Ilse Pedler by visiting her website https://ilsepedler.com/.

Find out more about Seren and purchase books featured in this podcast by visiting the Seren website here https://www.serenbooks.com/

Follow Seren on social media
Twitter https://twitter.com/SerenBooks
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/serenbooks/
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/SerenBooks
Contact them by email at seren@serenbooks.com

This podcast is produced by Alternative Stories, a spoken word production company specialising in literary podcasts and radio programmes. To find out more about Alternative Stories, follow or hire them please follow the links below
https://linktr.ee/AlternativeStories
Contact them by email at office@alterantivestories.com

We would like to express our thanks to Wordsworth Grasmere and all the staff there for their hospitality during our visit. If you’d like to find out more about the work of Wordsworth Grasmere, get details of how you can visit the museum or attend one of their events please use the links below.

You can visit the Wordsworth Grasmere website here https://wordsworth.org.uk/

And follow them on social media via these links
https://twitter.com/WordsworthGras
https://www.instagram.com/WordsworthGrasmere/
https://www.facebook.com/WordsworthGrasmere/

Please join us next week for a conversation with poet and novelist Christopher Meredith, about his books ‘Still’ and ‘Please’, which will be released on Thursday 20th October. Subscribe in your favourite podcast app to have all future editions delivered to your podcast feed the moment they are released.

en-gbOctober 13, 2022

Preview Nine: ‘The Young Man and the Fox’ by Ilse Pedler

Our ninth preview podcast features the poem ‘The Young Man and the Fox’ by Ilse Pedler from her Seren collection ‘Auscultation’. The reader is Ilse Pedler and the poem was recorded on location at Wordsworth Grasmere in the Lake District.

Listen to our in-depth interview with Ilse in the next edition of The Seren Poetry Podcast, due to be released on Thursday 12th October.

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. 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.

Recorded on location in our poets homes, at Seren’s headquarters and from the Wordsworth Centre in Grasmere, you’ll hear from some of the most important poets in the UK, each with an extended interview and a selection of their verse in high quality audio. We’ll speak to Polly Atkin, Kim Moore, Carolyn Jess-Cooke, Rhian Edwards, Eric Ngalle Charles, Ben Wilkinson and more.

The Seren Poetry Podcast will be available on all podcast platforms from 6th October 2022.