Glen Oglaza, author

About

Glen Oglaza

Glen Oglaza is an award-winning television news reporter and political correspondent with more than twenty-five years' experience with ITN and Sky News. At ITN, he covered many of the biggest stories of the 1980s and 1990s, and was part of the award-winning ITN teams covering the Fall of the Berlin Wall, the plight of the Kurds in the wake of the First Gulf War, and the massacre in Dunblane. He was BAFTA-nominated for his coverage of the London Poll Tax riot. As a political correspondent, he covered the governments of Tony Blair, Gordon Brown and David Cameron.

Books

  • Dad

    "Dad" is a collection of poems about fathers, yes - but also about war, memory, prayer, politics, and the quiet spaces between what's said and what's meant. These poems by Glen Oglaza speak plainly, sometimes wryly, often with restraint, about the things that shape us.

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  • Olive Groves

    "The olive groves have seen it all before - The armies marching blindly off to war..." Glen Oglaza's new collection of poems, "Olive Groves" doesn't shy away from truth. It walks through the wreckage of war and the warmth of love, through joy, loss, memory, and meaning.

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  • Baby Boomers

    In Baby Boomers, Glen Oglaza captures the raw truths, fleeting joys, and deep contradictions of modern life through a rich tapestry of poems that range from tender to fierce, reflective to rebellious.

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  • Religion, Fake News and other Misdemeanors

    The author, besides being a BAFTA-nominated television news reporter and political ‎correspondent, is also an established poet. This book is a collection of poems conveying ‎universal themes of love, yearning and hope. 

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  • Always

    ‎Always is the fourth book of poems by the award-winning television news ‎reporter and political correspondent with over twenty-five years of experience ‎at ITN and Sky News. Always is a collection of poems that captures life's ‎raw and quiet moments with glowing humour, insight, and sensitivity.

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  • Spam and Other Poems

    Step into a world of raw emotion and piercing insight with this collection of poems. From the depths of ‎despair to the heights of triumph, these verses explore the complexities of life, love, and the human ‎condition.

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  • More When I Stories

    In this book, he looks ‎behind the scenes of the premiership of three Prime Ministers, Tony Blair, ‎Gordon Brown and David Cameron and the stories that made the headlines. ‎Theresa May and Boris Johnson also feature in stories that are at times moving, ‎insightful and occasionally very funny,

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  • When I Stories

    The fall of the Berlin Wall. Lockerbie. Hillsborough. Dunblane. Mad Cow disease. 9/11. ‎ These are all events that have entered our national, and international, consciousness. Events so ‎momentous that we can all say where we were, what we were doing,

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  • No Words and other poems

    Multi award-winning reporter Glen Oglaza spent ten years at ITN, covering some of the biggest stories of the 1980s and 90s before joining Sky News to focus on covering politics.

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