The Blue Book - Couverture souple

Sheers, Owen

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1854112775 ISBN 13 : 9781854112774

Editeur : Seren, 2000

Synopsis

This impressive debut includes poems on a wide range of themes: from recollections of a return to Fiji, to sharper memories of an adolescence in a rural town in Wales; from dark ruminations on farm life to tender and unconventional love poems. Owen Sheers has a talent for visual imagery, a flair for narrative and a grasp of the personal as acute as his awareness of the wider world. His astute portraits of relatives and contemporaries entice us into other lives. The Blue Book is a startlingly good first collection by a young writer of considerable ability and promise.

"This vivid and potent debut collection from Owen Sheers is populated with characters trying to come to terms with themselves and others and with the difficult journeys they find themselves taking. It is a moving experience, which he makes sense of in finely wrought verse that is tough, but also lyrical. A distinctive new voice for the year 2000."
Neil Rollinson

"Owen Sheers writes controlled, suggestive poems. This is thoughtful work, attentive and responsive to the world, and with a subtle music of its own"
Susan Wicks

"It is the truth in the details that suggests indisputably that Owen Sheers is the real thing, a poet of promise whom we are sure to hear much of in future. Buy, buy."
Dannie Abse

"Owen Sheer's poetry is contemporary, yet imbued with a strong, surprising, sense of memory. His characters are not merely vehicles for a poet's perceptions, they live - from Fijian preacher to farm workers and edgy adolescents in rural Wales to the sleeping girl who brings love to the night bus. He has a knack for capturing the cruelty of life's lack of tidy resolution but, best of all, Sheers has the courage to be tender."
Francine Stock

Owen Sheers was born in 1974, spent a portion of his childhood abroad, then returned to live on a farm in Abergavenny when he was nine. Educated at Oxford, with an MA in Creative Writing from the UEA writing programme, he has worked in television in London and Wales. He hit the limelight in 2000 when for The Times of January 1st, 2000, David Bailey photographed the foremost practitioners in the arts and sciences together with their choice of the person they expected to carry the discipline forward: Poet Laureate Andrew Motion selected Owen Sheers as the poet to watch. His first book was shortlisted for the Forward Poetry Prize Best First Collection and ACW Book of the Year 2001. Skirrid Hill, his second collection, won a Somerset Maugham Prize in 2006 and was longlisted for Welsh Book of the Year.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Seren
• Date d'édition: 2000
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1854112775
• ISBN 13: 9781854112774
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 64
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible