Pink Mist
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By Owen Sheers
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Winner of Wales Book of the Year
Pink Mist is a verse-drama about three young soldiers from Bristol who are deployed to Afghanistan. School friends still in their teens, Arthur, Hads and Taff each have their own reasons for enlisting. Within a short space of time they return to the women in their lives (a mother, a wife, a girlfriend), all of whom must now share the psychological and physical aftershocks of their service.
A work of great dramatic power, documentary integrity and emotional intensity, Pink Mist uses everyday yet heightened speech to excavate the human cost of modern warfare. Drawing upon interviews with soldiers and their families, as well as ancient texts such as the medieval Welsh poem Y Gododdin, it is the first extended lyric narrative to emerge from the devastating conflict in Afghanistan. TweetReviews
An extremely powerful verse novel / play. Fabulous, powerful and evocative writing, beautiful verse that really packs a punch and makes use of language so eloquently and profoundly. It is an emotionally draining story but the writing is so extraordinary that it literally drags you through the Afghanistan war and gives you an honest and harsh vision of the effects of any war on both the physical and mental health of those involved. Utterly pulsating.
