Harry Owen

Harry Owen was brought up in Liverpool, England and spent many years as a teacher of English before becoming a full-time poet and writer. Inspired by and passionate about the natural world, he was appointed the first official Poet Laureate of Cheshire (UK) in 2003. Since then he has published, amongst various other writings, eleven full collections of poetry:

'Searching for Machynlleth' (2000)

'The Music of Ourselves' (2004)

'Five Books of Marriage' (2008)

'Non-Dog' (2010)

'Worthy: poems for my father' (2011)

'Small Stones for Bromley' (2014)

'The Cull: new and resurrected poems' (2017)

'All Weathers' (2019)

‘Thicket: shades from the Eastern Cape’ (2022)

‘for…’ (2024)

‘Mindforest’ (2026)

He has edited three anthologies:

'I Write Who I Am: an anthology of Upstart poetry' (2011)

'For Rhino in a Shrinking World: an international anthology' (2013)

'Coming Home; poems of the Grahamstown diaspora' (2019)

Having moved to South Africa in 2008, he lived and worked in Grahamstown in the Eastern Cape for thirteen years before moving to the Western Cape, where he now lives in the Cape Winelands, near Stellenbosch.