A Poet's Guide to Britain
$31.50
- Paperback
368 pages
- Release Date
4 January 2011
Summary
First paperback publication of Sheers’s inspired selection of Britain’s best verse
Introduced and selected by the poet-presenter Owen Sheers, A Poet’s Guide to Britain is a major poetry anthology in its own right.
Owen Sheers passionately believes that poems, and particularly poems of place, not only affect us as individuals, but can have the power to mark and define a collective experience - our identities, our country, and our land. Under the headings of six varieti…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141192840 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0141192844 |
| Author: | Owen Sheers |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 368 |
| Release Date: | 4 January 2011 |
| Weight: | 270g |
| Dimensions: | 20mm x 130mm x 197mm |
| Series: | Poetry Anthology |
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Owen Sheers
Owen Sheers was born in Fiji in 1974 and brought up in Abergavenny, South Wales. The winner of an Eric Gregory Award and the 1999 Vogue Young Writer’s Award, his first collection of poetry, The Blue Book (Seren, 2000) was short-listed for the Welsh Book of the Year and the Forward Prize Best 1st Collection 2001. Owen has also written for Radio, TV and newspapers. In 2004 he was Writer in Residence at The Wordsworth Trust and was selected as one of the Poetry Book Society’s 20 Next Generation Poets. Owen’s 2nd collection of poetry, Skirrid Hill (Seren, 2005) won a 2006 Somerset Maugham Award. Owen’s first novel, Resistance (Faber, 2008) won a 2008 Hospital Club Creative Award and was short-listed for the Writers Guild Best Book Award. Resistance is translated into nine languages.
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