Owen Sheers Books in Order

Owen Sheers’s first poetry collection moves between childhood in rural Wales, memories of Fiji, family portraits and unconventional love poems. Its attention to landscapes and other people connects intimate experience with questions about belonging and the wider world.

Owen Sheers follows the life of his relative Arthur Cripps, a poet and unconventional missionary in colonial Rhodesia. His search connects Cripps's conflicts with imperial authority to the troubled landscape of contemporary Zimbabwe.

Separation shapes these poems about family, relationships, childhood and the Welsh landscape. Moving between borders, languages, past and present, Owen Sheers explores the distance between living and dead and the changes that divide people from places they once knew.

In an imagined German invasion of Britain, the men of a Welsh valley disappear overnight. Their wives face an isolated winter alongside occupying soldiers, creating uneasy relationships that test personal loyalties and the meaning of resistance.

This poetry anthology explores how British landscapes shape imagination and identity. Owen Sheers selects poems about cities, villages, mountains, islands, woods, and coasts, adding introductions and connections to the BBC series of the same name.

Wounded soldier Matthew O'Connell is ordered to escort six raven chicks from a Welsh farm to the Tower of London. This retelling of Branwen's story brings Welsh mythology into a landscape shaped by the Second World War.

This one-man play explores the life and poetry of Keith Douglas, the British poet who served in the Second World War. Owen Sheers brings Douglas’s writing and wartime experience together in a dramatic portrait of the young artist.

Drawing on access to players and coaching staff, Owen Sheers explores the place of rugby in Welsh national life. His account follows a year with the national team after its promising 2011 World Cup campaign.

A stranger appears near the sea as Port Talbot awaits the Company Man's arrival. Over three extraordinary days, the Teacher encounters violence and resurrected voices in this novel reimagining Sheers's community staging of the Passion.

Wounded service personnel confront life after the war in Afghanistan, moving through pain, morphine hallucinations and rehabilitation. Drawn from their experiences, the play follows the physical and psychological consequences of injury and the struggle to recover at home.

Teenage friends Arthur, Hads and Taff enlist for different reasons, then return from service to the women awaiting them. Their mothers, wives and girlfriends must share the physical injuries and psychological aftershocks that reshape life beyond the battlefield.

After his journalist wife dies in a drone strike, Michael moves to London and befriends a neighboring family. A letter from the responsible pilot reopens his grief, while a disastrous mistake burdens him with a secret.

The battle of Mametz Wood becomes a dramatic exploration of soldiers’ experiences during the First World War. Drawing on accounts of the fighting and the writers who endured it, Owen Sheers connects remembered landscapes with the human cost of war.

Owen Sheers and Laura Bates address future generations about the possibility of a society free from restrictive gender expectations. Their letters and poetry consider masculinity, inequality and the conversations needed to build a fairer future for everyone.

The memories of Aberfan residents shape a poetic portrait of the Welsh mining village devastated by a coal-tip collapse in 1966. Voices across generations recover community life before the disaster and consider how its consequences continue to shape the present.

Over twenty-four hours in a regional hospital, patients and staff reveal what the National Health Service means in everyday life. Their experiences are woven into the history of its creation, connecting private struggles with the ideals behind public healthcare.