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A Poet's Guide to Britain (Poetry Anthology)
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Introduced and selected by the poet-presenter Owen Sheers, A Poet's Guide to Britain is a major poetry anthology that ties in with the BBC series of the same name.
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 varieties of British landscape - London and Cities, Villages and Towns, Mountains and Moorland, Islands, Woods and Forest, and Coast and Sea - he has collected poems that evoke qualities of the land, city and sea and have become part of the way we see these landscapes. The anthology follows a similar format to the BBC series, while also supplementing the poems included in the programme with his own personal favourites.
About the Author
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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Format:Kindle Edition
Owen Sheers' programme on the BBC was a real delight and so on reading this after a family member leant it to me I found I really liked this too...full of great poems, some older some newer and a real pleasure as were the collections Rhyme and Reason and Watering Can that I read recently.
Format:Hardcover
This book, which is beautfully produced, brings to attention many poems by poets alive and long dead, some of which are well known to everyone, others which few will have heard of let alone read. I thoroughly recommend it.
17 of 23 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Having read the Amazon product description I expected the book to follow the format of the TV series - giving information about the poets, descriptions and pictures of the British landscapes that inspired their work, as well as additional poems by other writers. The book is actually a straightforward anthology of around 200 poems with an introduction by Owen Shears.
I ordered the book several months before publication using the Amazon product details as my guide and was looking forward to a 'book of the series'. There are some beautiful poems in this book but it's not what I was expecting so I'm disappointed with my purchase.
I ordered the book several months before publication using the Amazon product details as my guide and was looking forward to a 'book of the series'. There are some beautiful poems in this book but it's not what I was expecting so I'm disappointed with my purchase.
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