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Sheers’ father’s job (for the Overseas Development Agency) took the family to the island of Fiji in the South Pacific, where the poet was born. They returned to the UK, briefly to live in a traditional longhouse near Abergavenny in Wales, then to London (where the poet lived between the ages of three and nine). In an article in the Guardian, the poet acknowledges how, even when living in London, the family’s Welsh house always remained ‘home’:
Sheers went to a comprehensive school in Abergavenny, where he was scrum half for the rugby team, and from there to New College, Oxford to read English.
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