A Poet's Guide to Britain - Hardcover

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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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The British landscape has produced some of the most powerful and unforgettable poetry ever written. Here acclaimed young poet Owen Sheers takes us on a journey around Britain, and through the great poems that have been inspired by its varied and dramatic scenery.

Travelling from village to mountain, clifftop to city, woodland to heath, Owen reveals the stories that lie behind the poetry of our landscape, and the poets who captured it. Here are voices both historical and modern, from William Wordsworth's sonnet 'On Westminster Bridge', celebrating the beauty of a London dawn, to Sylvia Plath's 'Hardcastle Crags', a potent and visceral evocation of the Yorkshire moors. There are poems from across the length and breadth of the British Isles, among them Matthew Arnold's meditation on love and faith, 'Dover Beach', Lynette Roberts's 'Poem from Llanybri', depicting the security of a close-knit Welsh village community, Louis Macniece's 'Woods', a tribute to the rural Dorset of his childhood, and George Mackay Brown's 'Hamnavoe', an elegy for his postman father on the windswept island of Orkney.

Exploring how the vital, ongoing link between place and verse has enriched our literary heritage and our sense of national identity - and continues to do so - this book is a celebration of the poems that have become part of the way we see our landscape.