2003 Cheshire Poet Laureate
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2003 Cheshire Poet Laureate
Harry Owen is Cheshire’s first Poet Laureate. Brought up in Liverpool, Harry Owen became a teacher in 1970 and moved to Bedfordshire. He spent several years in California as an English teacher and soccer coach before returning to Liverpool in 1982. For more than ten years he taught in the inner city before eventually moving closer to his present home in Cheshire.
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Despite (or perhaps because of) his urban background, he has a deep love of the countryside and the natural environment, invariably spending his holidays in the tranquil Isles of Scilly with his wife and teenage son. Harry lives and works in Congleton, Cheshire, where he is Chairman of Congleton Writers’ Forum. Searching for Machynlleth is published by NPF Publications and is now in its second edition (2003), ISBN 190072653X. He has also had poems published in Helicon, Reach, Pause, Iota and in the anthologies Words of Silk and Growl. Other poems have been broadcast on BBC Radio Merseyside and BBC Radio Stoke.
Harry began his 12 month term in January 2003 and has been set the following core commissions:
• Chairman of Cheshire County Council’s Civic Service
• Launch of the Cheshire Rural Trust
• Cheshire Show
• Royal Horticultural Society Show at Tatton Park
• Arts & Culture Event
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