Owen Sheers on Private Passions with Michael Berkeley 25th October 2015
Owen Sheers on Private Passions with Michael Berkeley 25th October 2015

Owen Sheers' career as a poet began aged 10, when he won a competition at Abergavenny Show for a poem in which he found a rhyme for "orange" - a mountain in the Brecon Beacons called the Blorenge.

He says: "I won 50p and thought, 'there's money in this poetry game'.

I've since been proved wrong."