The Seren Poetry Podcast

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…

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

 In this edition we speak with poet Rhian Edwards. Rhian Edwards is joint poetry editor at Seren alongside…

Our eleventh preview podcast features Rhian Edwards reading the title poem from her second collection The Estate Agent’s Daughter. The poem is read by Rhian Edwards and was recorded on location at th…

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

 In this edition we speak with poet and novelist Christopher Meredith. Christopher Meredith is the award-w…

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…

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 D…

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 W…

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

In this edition we speak with Polly Atkin about her startlingly original second collection ‘Much With Body…

We would like to thank Wordsworth Grasmere for hosting three of our interviews in the first series of The Seren Poetry Podcast. We recorded our chats with Kim Moore, Ilse Pedler and our opening podca…

Our seventh  preview podcast features ‘Iya : the mother of many children’ from the  Seren collection ‘Homelands’ read and introduced by Eric Ngalle Charles. 

The Seren Poetry Podcast is a new podcast …

Our sixth preview podcast features ‘I Dream I'm The Death of Jeff Buckley’ by Ben Wilkinson from the Seren collection ‘Same Difference’.  The reader is Ben Wilkinson and the poem was recorded on loca…

Our fifth preview podcast features the poem ‘Auscultation’ by Ilse Pedler from the Seren collection of the same name. The reader is Ilse Pedler and the poem was recorded on location at Wordsworth Gra…

Our fourth preview podcast features the poem ‘Steampunk Jungle’  by Christopher Meredith  from the Seren collection ‘Still’.  The reader is Christopher Meredith and the poem was recorded at Seren’s o…

Our third preview podcast includes the poem ‘All the Men I Never Married number 35’  by Kim Moore from Kim’s Forward Prize shortlisted collection ‘All the Men I Never Married’. The reader is Kim Moor…

Our second preview podcast features the poem ‘The Telling’ by Carolyn Jess-Cooke from her Seren collection ‘We Have to Leave the Earth’.  The reader is Carolyn Jess-Cooke and the poem was recorded on…

Our first preview podcast includes the poem ‘Full Wolf Moon’ by Polly Atkin from her Seren collection ‘Much With Body’.  The reader is Polly Atkin and the poem was recorded on location at Wordsworth …

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…