Independent Welsh publisher Seren interviews some of the UK’s best poets (who also happen to be published by Seren) about their creative practice, inspiration and recently published books. Listen below or find us on your favourite podcast platform. Find out more about Seren at https://www.serenbooks.com/.
Chris Gregory runs Alternative Stories, a spoken-word audio production company making literary podcasts featuring audio drama, poetry and fiction. Twice featured at the UK International Radio Drama Festival and with a number of dramas featured on BBC Radio, Alternative Stories produce 4 podcasts : The Seren Poetry Podcast, Write On! Audio, the science fiction drama The Dex Legacy and their own anthology podcast Alternative Stories and Fake Realities.
Rhian is a multi-award winning poet. Her first collection of poems Clueless Dogs (Seren) won Wales Book of the Year 2013, the Roland Mathias Prize for Poetry 2013 and Wales Book of the Year People’s Choice 2013. It was also shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection 2012.
Rhian won the John Tripp Award for Spoken Poetry, having won both the Judges and Audience award. She was also the first Writer in Residence at Aberystwyth Arts Centre from March to June 2013. Her poems have appeared in the Guardian, Times Literary Supplement, Poetry Review, New Statesman, Spectator, Poetry London, Poetry Wales, Arete, Prague Revue, the London Magazine, Stand and Planet Magazine amongst others.
Rhian is a poet and musician and has delivered over 400 stage, radio and festival performances world-wide. She lives in South Wales with her daughter.