The Storm's Flora: Laura Wainwright, Seren
Cardiff-born writer, artist and musician Laura Wainwright grew up in Newport where she still lives. She has a PhD in English literature from Cardiff University where her thesis focused on Anglophone Welsh Literature, later published as ‘New Territories in Modernism: Anglophone Welsh Writing, 1930-1949’ by the University of Wales Press. The Storm’s Flora is her first full-length debut collection fo...
11th January 2026
The Taste of Lightning: Ivan V Lalić, Bloodaxe
Ivan V Lalić (1931-1996) was born in Belgrade, the Yugoslav and Serbian capital. The summers of his childhood were spent in western Serbia, an idyll that came to an abrupt end with the Nazi invasion in 1941 and then the allied bombing raids on Belgrade in 1944 in which several of his friends died. H...
3rd January 2026
Polar Corona: Caroline Gill, Hedgehog Poetry Press
Caroline Gill, who currently lives in Suffolk, grew up in London, Kent and Norfolk before moving with David, her archaeologist husband, to Rome, Newcastle upon Tyne, Cambridge and Swansea. She graduat...
3rd January 2026
