Skirrid Hill by Owen Sheers
Ideas of separation inhabit many of the poems in Owen Sheers’ second collection: the geographical and linguistic divides of borders, the separation of the living and the dead, the movement from childhood to adulthood, the fraying of relationships. It is in the acute awareness of such moments of separation – past or impending – and in the friction between these two diverse states that Sheers’ penetrating, tender poems are often formed. At once grounded and lyrical, the poems in Skirrid Hill, first published in 2005, reveal the continued growth of a poet gifted with a rare descriptive power and a uniquely sensitive insight into the trials and contours of life.
Owen Sheers is a poet, author and playwright. Twice-winner of Wales Book of the Year, his other awards include the St David Award for Culture, the Wilfred Owen Poetry Award and, for ‘Skirrid Hill’, the Somerset Maugham Award. The author of two novels, ‘Resistance’ and ‘I Saw A Man’, his work for TV and theatre includes the BAFTA-nominated film-poem ‘The Green Hollow’, the verse drama ‘Pink Mist’ and for National Theatre Wales, ‘The Passion’ and ‘Mametz’. A former NYPL Cullman Fellow, he is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and Professor of Creative Writing at Swansea University.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781854114037 |
| ISBN 10 | 1854114034 |
| Title | Skirrid Hill |
| Author | Owen Sheers |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Poetry Wales Press |
| Year published | 2005-10-17 |
| Number of pages | 52 |
| Prizes | Winner of Somerset Maugham Award 2006 |
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