Travel Journalism

Owen’s essay on Zimbabwe for Granta – ‘Road Trip’ (Granta issue 111):
www.granta.com/Online-Only/Road-Trip

Some of Owen’s travel articles can be found on The travel section of the Guardian website
travel.guardian.co.uk

‘Reflection in the Rain’, travel article about Fiji, New Statesman:
www.newstatesman.com

Literary Journalism and Reportage

Aberfan 50 years on: how best to remember the tragedy?
 www.theguardian.com/culture/2016/oct/09/aberfan-50-years-owen-sheers-the-green-hollow-film-poem

In Parenthesis: in praise of the Somme’s forgotten poet
 www.theguardian.com/books/2016/jun/25/in-parenthesis-no-longer-who-was-the-author-of-the-greatest-poem-of-the-first-world-war

Owen’s essay Bomb Gone about the British thermonuclear tests on Christmas Island in the Central Pacific is published in Granta 101. Reviews of the issue can be read here:
www.granta.com/Magazine/101

‘Guerillas in waiting’ – Saturday October 20, 2007
www.guardian.co.uk

‘Border Crossing – The Library of Wales’ – The Guardian, March 25 2006.
arts.guardian.co.uk

‘Lest We Forget – Keith Douglas’ – The Guardian, May 28 2005.
arts.guardian.co.uk

‘The Roaring Boy Lost in America’ – Dylan Thomas – The Saturday Times, October 25 2003.
entertainment.timesonline.co.uk

 

Essays

Poetry and place: some personal reflections – Geography Vol 93 Part 3 Autumn 2008:
Geography article (pdf)

Owen has contributed a short essay ‘Watching’ to the Saqi Books anthology ‘Lebanon, Lebanon’ All proceeds from this book will go to children’s charities in Lebanon
www.saqibooks.com

Library of Wales – Alun Lewis, In the Green Tree. Foreword by Owen Sheers.
www.libraryofwales.org