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A Poet's Guide To Britain
'The best poetry programme I've seen in years' The Daily Telegraph (John Preston)
'[Owen Sheers] can sign me up for another literary tour anytime...' Radio Times
The book features six films from the acclaimed BBC 4 series about six very different poems from six different places in the British Isles. In each film, presenter and author Owen Sheers explores how the landscape inspired a great poem and the nature and reach of its influence and legacy.
Presenter Owen Sheers passionately believes that poems, and particularly poems of place, not only affect us as individuals, but can have the power to mark and define a collective experience - our identities, our country, our land. He has chosen six powerful poems, all personal favourites, and all poems that have become part of the way we see our landscape. The tie-in anthology of the series will follow a similar format to the series itself while also offering additional poems about the landscape and nature of Britain.
Each film is structured as a journey through that particular landscape. Overall these are films that open up not just the ideas of individual poems but also the idea of poetry itself. Each poem is being explored and analyzed in detail with locals and leading figures in the contemporary arts.
From the BBC Four 6-part series (2009)
Produced by DCD-owned West Park Pictures
Penguin Classics
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