The Green Hollow
In 1966 a coal slag heap collapsed on a school in south Wales, killing 144 people, most of them children. Poet Owen Sheers has given voice to those who still live in Aberfan, the pit village in which tragedy struck, and... See More
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by Owen Sheers
(13 reviews)
Quick ViewIn 1966 a coal slag heap collapsed on a school in south Wales, killing 144 people, most of them children. Poet Owen Sheers has given voice to those who still live in Aberfan, the pit village in which tragedy struck, and... See More
by Owen Sheers
(135 reviews)
Quick ViewThis edition has been fully updated to include the 2013 Six Nations and the British and Irish Lions Tour. What does rugby mean to Wales? Where does the heart of Welsh rugby lie? In Calon, Owen Sheers takes a personal journey... See More
by Owen Sheers
(6 reviews)
Quick ViewUnicorns, Almost portrays the short life of World War II poet Keith Douglas, from his childhood through four engagements to his fighting in the Western desert, his accelerated education as a poet and his early death three... See More
by Owen Sheers
(49 reviews)
Quick ViewIntroduced 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... See More
by Owen Sheers
(5 reviews)
Quick View'"For years afterwards the farmers found them - the wasted young, turning up under their plough blades." So run the blunt, grimly beautiful opening lines of the Welsh poet Owen Sheers's elegy for the men, 4,000 of them from... See More
by Owen Sheers
(15 reviews)
Quick ViewJuly 2018 marks the 70th anniversary of the National Health Service Act. Owen Sheers, the author of Pink Mistand the BAFTA nominated The Green Hollow, has created a virtuosic 'film-poem' to coincide with the Vox Pictures/BBC... See More
by Owen Sheers
(62 reviews)
Quick ViewTwo stories, two different times, but the thread of an ancient tale from the medieval Celtic Mabinogion cycle runs through the lives of twenty-first-century farmer's daughter Rhian and the mysterious Branwen, in this tale by... See More
by Owen Sheers
(7 reviews)
Quick ViewIn The Gospel of Us, Owen Sheers reimagines as fiction his play The Passion, a three-day dramatisation set in the streets, beaches and clubs of Port Talbot, co-directed by and starring Michael Sheen. Sheers' novella is told... See More
by Owen Sheers
(2,418 reviews)
Quick ViewThe event that changed all of their lives happened on a Saturday afternoon in June, just minutes after Michael Turner - thinking the Nelsons' house was empty - stepped through their back door. After the sudden loss of his... See More
by Owen Sheers
(480 reviews)
Quick View1944. After the fall of Russia and the failed D-Day landings, half of Britain is occupied... Young farmer's wife Sarah Lewis wakes to find her husband has disappeared, along with all of the men from her remote Welsh... See More