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Owen Sheers

April 2023

  • Picws Du on the Carmarthen Fans escarpment from Fan Foel in the Bannau Brycheiniog national park.

    Brecon Beacons national park renamed Bannau Brycheiniog in Welsh language move

    National park also ditches fiery logo as it embarks on plan to tackle climate and biodiversity crisis

July 2021

  • George Monbiot

    Livestreamed documentary Rivercide to unmask UK’s water polluters

    George Monbiot hosts innovative investigation naming the farms and water firms damaging Britain’s rivers

May 2020

  • Raymond Antrobus., Nikita Lalwani , Clare Pollard

    Books blog
    Owen Sheers selects 10 writers shaping the UK's future

    The author explains his choice of writers meeting the challenge of giving literary shape to the climate crisis, sexism, racism, inclusivity, and still making good art

June 2018

  • A nurse does her rounds at Charing Cross hospital, London, in the 1950s.

    NHS at 70
    70 years of the NHS: a revolution that is reborn every day

    The creation of the health service changed Britain. Yet while this vision is under severe threat, it has also never been more keenly cherished

March 2018

  • Elemental hills … the Brecon Beacons.

    Made in ...
    Owen Sheers on Gwent: ‘It's a more ancient world than London's’

    The author on living in a land of divisions and borders, small-town myths and generous skies

October 2016

  • Mansel (in the white shirt, centre), a medical student who travelled home to Aberfan that day.

    The Green Hollow by Owen Sheers – extract

  • Residents and rescue workers dig for survivors amid the wreckage of Aberfan’s primary school, 21 October 1966.

    Aberfan 50 years on: how best to remember the tragedy?

July 2016

  • Author Owen Sheers, on the left, and Oliver Balch walking up Hatterall Ridge in the Black Mountains

    Visit Britain and Northern Ireland
    A walk through Wales' beguiling Black Mountains

    ‘Something about the Black Mountains lends itself towards myth and magic, folklore and fiction. What exactly, I’m not sure,’ says Oliver Balch. With author and poet Owen Sheers as his guide, he aims to find out

December 2015

  • Lia Williams and Angus Wright in Oresteia by Aeschylus at the Almeida.

    Best culture 2015
    Lyn Gardner's top 10 theatre of 2015

    The Almeida’s enthralling Oresteia is singled out by Lyn Gardner who, in no set order, chooses her other essential productions of the year

August 2015

  • Rachel and Becky Unthank in Corbridge

    The place that inspires me: artists on their creative hotspots

    The roots of home, a wild escape… most creative types have a place that unlocks their imagination. We asked writers, musicians and artists to tell us about theirs

July 2015

  • Illustration by Sarah Tanat-Jones.

    Best holiday reads 2015

    Authors, critics and philosophers tell us which books they will be reading on the beach
  • pink mist

    Pink Mist review – intense, spare theatre

    Owen Sheers interviewed soldiers recently wounded in Afghanistan for his harrowing tale of young lives shattered by war
  • Pink Mist, based on Owen Sheers' verse drama.

    Pink Mist review – heartbreaking story about the aftershocks of war

    Inspired by interviews with British soldiers, poet Owen Sheers’ tale of three Bristol men deployed to Afghanistan confronts the mental scars that never fade

June 2015

  • Author Owen Sheers at his home near Talgarth, mid Wales, UK

    I Saw a Man by Owen Sheers review – a compelling view of male bereavement

  • Author Owen Sheers at his home near Talgarth, mid Wales, UK

    A life in ...
    Owen Sheers: an interview with contemporary literature’s renaissance man

  • Model reading a book

    The books fashion's front row are taking on holiday this summer

  • Owen Sheers, books

    I Saw a Man review – Owen Sheers’s profound meditation on memory and mourning

April 2015

  • EE2G0W Sun in universe or space, sun and galaxy in a nebula cloud

    Music blog
    Mark Bowden's composition that will take you out of this world

    A Violence of Gifts, Mark Bowden’s ambitious new piece, takes inspiration from the latest scientific findings about the origins of the universe. Paired with Haydn’s Creation and Holst’s The Planets in concert it should be a mind-blowing evening

September 2014

  • Joshua Ferris

    International Dylan Thomas prize unveils 'extraordinarily strong' shortlist

    Chair of judges Peter Florence hails 'a formidable year' for prize, with Eimear McBride, Eleanor Catton and Joshua Ferris among the contenders

June 2014

  • Mametz National Theatre Wales

    Mametz review – A bloody battle on the Somme is evoked in a Welsh wood

    In this fresh, visceral, time-bending piece, scripted by the poet Owen Sheers, the audience are cast as sightseers on a battlefield tour, writes Lyn Gardner
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