Owen Sheers is een vooraanstaand dichter, romanschrijver en toneelschrijver wiens werken vaak de ingewikkelde verbanden tussen landschap, geheugen en menselijke identiteit onderzoeken. Zijn schrijfstijl kenmerkt zich door indringende lyriek en een diepgaand begrip van de menselijke psyche, wat lezers een ervaring biedt die zowel boeiend als tot nadenken stemmend is. Door zijn diverse literaire output duikt Sheers in universele thema's die resoneren in verschillende culturen en tijden. Zijn vaardigheid in het verweven van poëzie, proza en drama maakt hem tot een onderscheidende en belangrijke stem in de hedendaagse literatuur.
In 1966 a coal slag heap collapsed on a school in south Wales, killing 144 people, most of them children. Perhaps most significantly: what is Aberfan like today? The Green Hollow is a historical story with a deeply urgent contemporary resonance;
Pink Mist is a verse-drama about three young friends from Bristol who join the army and are deployed to the post 9/11 conflict in Afghanistan. Within a short space of time all three return to the women in their lives - a wife, a mother, a girlfriend - all of whom must now share the psychological and physical aftershocks of their service. Drawing upon interviews with soldiers and their families, Pink Mist illuminates the timeless human cost of war and its all too often devastating effect upon the young lives pulled into its orbit.
This is a world of transformative pains, triumphs, losses and celebrations and joins us all in our universal experiences of health and sickness, birth and death, regardless of race, gender or wealth. Informed by over seventy hours of interviews, the work is punctuated with the historical narrative of the birth of the NHS Act.
The finest commemoration of the First World War centenary I've seen to-date, this deserves a much longer life.' Dominic Cavendish, Daily TelegraphMametz by Owen Sheers was premiered by National Theatre Wales in June 2014.
Unicorns, 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 days after the Normandy D-Day landings at the age of twenty-four.
Exploring Celtic mythology and Arthurian romance, this collection of 11 stories is rooted in medieval Welsh manuscripts. It presents themes of enchantment, shapeshifting, and the timeless struggles between conflict and peacemaking, as well as love and betrayal. Each tale is uniquely reimagined, offering fresh narratives that reflect both contemporary issues and historical contexts, enriching the understanding of Great Britain's cultural heritage.
A poetry anthology. 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 - it collects poems that evoke qualities of the land, city and sea and have become part of the way we see these landscapes.
The Blue Book includes poems on a range of themes, from recollections of time spent in Fiji, to sharper memories of an adolescence spent in the tough streets of a small, rural town; from dark ruminations on farm life to tender and unconventional love poems.
When Owen Sheers discovers a book in his father's study he stumbles upon the life of an obscure relative: Arthur Cripps, lyric poet and maverick missionary to Rhodesia. Compelled by the description of Cripps' extraordinary life in Africa, Sheers embarks on a journey through contemporary Zimbabwe in an attempt to better understand his ancestor's devotion to the country and its people and the dramatic, often bloody, differences that echo across the years.
This novella by Owen Sheers retells the Passion of Christ, based on the author's groundbreaking National Theatre of Wales play starring Michael Sheen and performed over three days in Port Talbot.