Introduced and selected by the poet-presenter Owen Sheers, A Poet's
Guide to Britain is a major poetry anthology in its own right. 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, and
our land. Under the headings of six varieties of British landscape -
London and Cities, Villages and Towns, Mountains and Moorland, Islands,
Woods and Forest, and Coast and Sea - he has collected poems that evoke
qualities of the land, city and sea and have become part of the way we
see these landscapes. The anthology follows a similar format to the BBC
series, while also supplementing the poems included in the programme
with his own personal favourites.