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The Blue Book by Sheers, Owen, 1974- is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is The Blue Book about?

This impressive debut includes poems on a wide range of from recollections of a return to Fiji, to sharper memories of an adolescence in a rural town in Wales; from dark ruminations on farm life to tender and unconventional love poems. Owen Sheers has a talent for visual imagery, a flair for narrative and a grasp of the personal as acute as his awareness of the wider world. His astute portraits of relatives and contemporaries entice us into other lives. The Blue Book is a startlingly good first collection by a young writer of considerable ability and promise. "This vivid and potent debut collection from Owen Sheers is populated with characters trying to come to terms with themselves and others and with the difficult journeys they find themselves taking. It is a moving experience, which he makes sense of in finely wrought verse that is tough, but also lyrical. A distinctive new voice for the year 2000." Neil Rollinson "Owen Sheers writes controlled, suggestive poems. This is thoughtful work, attentive and responsive to the world, and with a subtle music of its own" Susan Wicks "It is the truth in the details that suggests indisputably that Owen Sheers is the real thing, a poet of pr

Who reads The Blue Book?

Author

Sheers, Owen, 1974-

Publisher

Bridgend, Wales: Seren

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9781854112774

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Humanities

Rating

2.9 / 5 (48 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13