Not Yet My Mother
Owen Sheers
'Not Yet My Mother' is a poem in which a photograph
in a family album is contemplated and leads us to a
disturbing jolt in time.

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Classroom Activities (pdf)

Poem (pdf)

Poem read by the author

Teacher's key (pdf)









Owen Sheers was born in Fiji in 1974 and brought
up in Abergavenny, South Wales.  His 2nd
collection of poetry, Skirrid Hill (Seren, 2005) won a
2006 Somerset Maugham Award. Owen’s first novel,
Resistance (Faber, 2008) won a 2008 Hospital Club
Creative Award and was short-listed for the Writers
Guild Best Book Award. Resistance is translated
into nine languages. Owen’s recent collaboration
with composer Rachel Portman, The Water Diviner’s
Tale, an oratorio for children, was premiered at the
Royal Albert Hall for the BBC Proms 2007. Owen
was a 2007 Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Fellow at
the New York Public Library. In 2011 a film based on
his novel 'Resistance' was released in the UK. He
currently divides his time between New York and
Wales.

For more information go to Owen's website on
http://www.owensheers.co.uk/index.html