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A Poet's Guide to Britain (Penguin Hardback Classics) (Hardcover)

by Owen Sheers (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 368 pages
  • Publisher: Penguin Classics (29 Oct 2009)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 014119202X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0141192024
  • Product Dimensions: 23.8 x 15.8 x 3.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 18,058 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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This title features six films about six very different poems from six different places in the British Isles. Each film tells the story of a poem - where it comes from, how it works and the nature and reach of its influence and legacy. Each film will be structured as a journey through that particular landscape. Overall these are films that open up not just the ideas of individual poems but also the idea of poetry itself. Each poem will be explored and analyzed in detail with locals and leading figures in the contemporary arts. Presenter 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, our land. He has chosen six powerful poems, all personal favourites, and all poems that have become part of the way we see our landscape. The tie-in anthology of the series will follow a similar format to the series itself while also offering additional poems about the landscape and nature of Britain.


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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3.0 out of 5 stars Not what I expected ..., 4 Nov 2009
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.
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