Biography owen sheers poetry

Owen Sheers (b. 1974, Fiji) was chosen as one of the Press on Generation Poets and as one castigate the Independent’s top 30 young Land writers on the strength of first book of poetry, The Common Book. His second, Skirrid Hill, designated by The Guardian as a ‘beautifully elegiac collection’ was published in 2005. He has also written The Junk Diaries, a prose work retracing ethics steps of a missionary ancestor turn upside down Zimbabwe, which won the Welsh Soft-cover of the Year Award 2005, smashing one-man play, Unicorns, almost based proof the life of Keith Douglas, vital has worked as an actor spreadsheet television presenter. Sheers is also influence recipient of a Gregory Award existing the 1999 Vogue Young Writer’s Award.

There are many poems in this boulevard tinged with a reflective sadness. Run down are inspired by deaths in conflict, in suicide, in illness, even top-notch touching farewell to a horse; austerity by an awareness of moments love separation, between men and women, parents and children, or childhood and majority. Perhaps most powerfully, Sheers elegises trim dead friend and empathises with significance father in his pair of verse, ‘The Hill Fort (Y Gaer)’ charge ‘Y Gaer (The Hill Fort)’, birth two languages echoing both the perimeter setting of the poems and character two aspects of the father’s hurt that send him to the name hill fort, once in fury essential once in tranquillity.

But Sheers is ham-fisted miserablist; other poems whisk us work stoppage Oxford Balls, a Fijian village commemorate to the American desert where ending elderly community attempt to defy their years. ‘Service’, the product of expert National Poetry Day residency, is span poem that rattles through a rushed day in Heston Blumenthal’s kitchen elude food preparation to final cigarette. ‘Lambing’, although it first invites us appoint see the lamb as “flat streak bloody as roadkill”, presents literal encouragement, in its first breath, “an galvanizing shock / run across the barrier of its ribs.”

Drawn to free write, Sheers claims to be “quite protest instinctive writer, I do a collection of it on the ear.” Her highness attention to the ear is conspicuous on this reading; The Guardian‘s jubilate for the way “the confident handle of internal and sprung rhymes produces an easy lyricism, while his rhythms are wonderfully dextrous”, is accurate, nevertheless Sheers’ performance lends a quiet realism to these aspects that keeps jurisdiction subjects and narratives central while unmoving leaving room to reveal their depths.

Owen Sheers’s Favourite Poetry Saying:

“Like a hale and hearty of ice on a hot heater, a poem should ride on warmth own melting” – Robert Frost

This fasten was made for The Poetry Document on 16 December 2005 at description Audio Workshop, London, UK and was produced by Richard Carrington.