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Launch of Going Back Celebrate the launch of Going Back at Granta’s first-ever event in Paris, with C. K. Williams, Mavis Gallant and Owen Sheers in conversation with Granta Editor John Freeman. Monday 19th July 6:30pm. More details:  www.shakespeareandcompany.com
Zimbabwe essay for Granta issue 111: www.granta.com/Online-Only/Road-Trip
Open Country, BBC Radio 4 
The plans to begin culling badgers in an area of Wales have divided the rural community. In a special programme, Welsh poet and author Owen Sheers talks to people in Pembrokeshire about the tensions that are running high among neighbouring landowners, some of whom support the decision to cull badgers within a trial zone to try and eradicate TB in cattle. Broadcast on Saturday 10th and Thursday 15th July www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00syqmb
Art of the Sea: In Pictures the first of two programmes presented by Owen about the art and the literature of the sea, aired on Wednesday May 5th on BBC 4. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00s9kf5
Festivals and Readings Owen will be appearing at the following festivals to talk about WHITE RAVENS and A POET'S GUIDE TO BRITAIN Hay Festival of Literature - Sunday 30th May www.hayfestival.com
Coleshill Auxiliary Research Team 70th anniversary event - Sunday 4th July www.coleshillhouse.com
Edinburgh Book festival - Saturday 21st August www.edbookfest.co.uk
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Owen's new novella, WHITE RAVENS, a contemporary response to the myth of 'Branwen Daughter of Llyr' has recently been published by Seren as part of their 'New Stories from the Mabinogion' series. "A gripping tale of the unexpected that fuses Welsh myth and modern macabre into a superb, bewitching whole." - Sunday Times "This unsettling, resonant and fantastically strange tale is impossible to pin down . . . the audacity of his vision is energizing, and his precise and elegant phrasing a joy." - Daily Mail "Sheers writes with dazzle and poetic economy" - The Times "Sheers makes his 20th-century setting sing but holds on to the otherworldliness of his source material ... A spellbinding fable about male self-destructiveness and the effects of war on those who return home." - Financial Times "[The] core tale is framed by a gripping contemporary story [that] brilliantly absorbs the magical elements of the original." - Saturday Guardian | ||
The accompanying anthology to Owen's BBC 4 series ‘A Poet’s Guide to Britain’, selected and with an introduction by Owen, is published by Penguin.
The poems featured in the series are: ‘Composed Upon Westminster Bridge’ by William Wordsworth ‘Wuthering Heights’ by Sylvia Plath ‘Hamnavoe’ by George Mackay Brown ‘Dover Beach’ by Matthew Arnold ‘Poem from Llanybri’ by Lynette Roberts ‘Woods’ by Louis MacNeice | ||
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National Theatre of Wales
The newly formed National Theatre of Wales has recently commissioned Owen to work with actor Michael Sheen to create a new a piece of theatre for Port Talbot. The production, which will be set in various locations in the town, will be based upon the Passion Plays and will be performed in April 2011. More information can be found at: www.nationaltheatrewales.org
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Film rights
The film rights for Owen’s novel ‘Resistance’ have been optioned by Richard Holmes of Big Rich films. Link to Variety article with details: www.variety.com
Big Rich Films: www.bigrichfilms.com
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Shearly Cripps Children's Home.
A Justgiving website has been set up to raise money for the Shearly Cripps Children's Home in Zimbabwe, which was founded in memory of Arthur Shearly Cripps, the subject of Owen's book The Dust Diaries. Donations can be made by following this link: www.justgiving.com/shearlycrippsorphanage
'I first met the children and staff of the Shearly Cripps Children’s Home when I was researching Arthur’s life for my book The Dust Diaries. In this book I was tracing, and trying to capture, some of the generosity of spirit, toughness and determined persistence that characterised Arthur’s life as one of the first European social activists in Southern Rhodesia . I discovered fragments of Arthur’s character and beliefs throughout my travels in Zimbabwe – in people who had known him, worked with him, been helped by him, or even just read his work or about him. In the Children’s Home, however, I found the very embodiment of everything that Arthur valued. Giving shelter, care and above all hope to those who thought they had lost those qualities from their lives. The children were, and are, so impressive. Hard working, clever, funny and grateful for anything that improves their lot. Obviously in recent years that lot has got much worse in the face of Zimbabwe ’s steady decline. The staff of the Home are trying their very hardest to keep the home going despite these worsening conditions, and, amazingly, they are succeeding where many others are failing. It is so important the Home is helped through this most difficult of times in Zimbabwe .. Not just for the Children under its care now, but for the thousands of children not yet born who will benefit from its work in the future.’ - Owen Sheers Literary enquiries For any literary enquiries, including readings and events, please contact: Zoë Waldie at Rogers, Coleridge and White: zoew@rcwlitagency.co.uk, Tel: 0207 792 3485 Readings
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