One and All launched on 4 November at nationaltrust.org.uk/oneandall, alongside a physical installation at Somerset House in London. “We’ve got over 775 miles of coastline under the care of the National Trust,” says Tom Freshwater, the trust’s contemporary arts programme manager. “What we are looking to do now is very much about managed access to the Read More …

Guests from all walks of life discuss their musical loves and hates, and talk about the influence music has had on their lives: Owen Sheers is a writer who likes to get away from his desk, and he tells Michael about his delight at being Artist in Residence at the Welsh Rugby Union, and about Read More …

The French edition of I Saw A Man (J’ai Vu Un Homme) has been shortlisted for the Prix Femina Etranger 2015. More: www.livreshebdo.fr/article/les-finalistes-du-prix-femina-2015

Pink Mist, a Bristol Old Vic production by Owen Sheers, will run at the Bush Theatre from 21st January to 13th February 2016. Pink Mist tells the story of three young Bristol men deployed to Afghanistan. Returning to the women in their lives who must now share the physical and psychological aftershocks of their service, Arthur, Read More …

Writer Owen Sheers, professor of creativity at Swansea University, is to produce a new work, inspired by Swansea’s Gower peninsula, which has been specially commissioned by the National Trust for a project celebrating the British coast. Owen Sheers will create a new poem based on Swansea’s Gower Peninsula, which was the first part of the Read More …

Delighted to announce RADA London film Sweet and Right by Owen Sheers has been selected for ASFFEST 5th to 8th November. Sweet and Right is a hard-hitting poetry film that examines the effects of modern warfare on returning soldiers and their families. Told from the perspective of one unfortunate soldier, the film draws on Pink Mist by Owen Sheers Read More …

Review: Owen Sheers’s ‘I Saw A Man’ Examines Grief and Responsibility July 12, 2015 By SARAH LYALL Something very bad has happened, we learn in the first sentence of Owen Sheers’s new novel, “I Saw A Man,” something that “changed all of their lives.” (We are not yet sure whose lives these are.) It happened because one Read More …

★★★★★ “Pink Mist may be the most important play of the year. It is certainly one of the best.” What’s On Stage ★★★★★ “A remarkable experience…This ground-breaking piece of theatre is not one to be missed.” The Fix Magazine ★★★★★ “explodes onto the Bristol Old Vic stage with a young cast on top of its game. Read More …

Listen to Owen’s interview with Monocle (June 2015):  

Welsh poet Alun Lewis was born 100 years ago, in July 1915. This play by contemporary Welsh poet Owen Sheers is adapted from the letters and poems of Lewis, one of the most vivid and lyrical voices of the second world war. It charts one man’s journey from pacifist to soldier, from husband to lover, Read More …