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16%OFFSheri Benning - Field Requiem - 9781800171510 - 9781800171510
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Field Requiem

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Description for Field Requiem Paperback.
Shortlisted for the Saskatchewan Book Award (Poetry Book) 2023. Shortlisted for the Saskatchewan Book Award (City of Saskatoon) 2023. Shortlisted for the Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry 2022. Shortlisted for the Pat Lowther Memorial Award 2022. Field Requiem bears witness to the violence inherent in the shift to industrialised farming in prairie Canada. Sheri Benning's poems chart the ways in which a way of life collapses, the world of the family farm, even as the speaker suffers, too. The first poem in the collection, 'Winter Sleep', is a fever dream: the borders between past ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2021
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd
Condition
New
Number of Pages
96
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781800171510
SKU
9781800171510
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1

About Sheri Benning
Sheri Benning grew up on a farm in central Saskatchewan, Canada. She's the author of The Season's Vagrant Light (Carcanet Press), as well as Thin Moon Psalm (Brick Books) and Earth After Rain (Thistledown Press) published in Canada. Her poems, essays and short stories have appeared in North American, British and European journals and anthologies, most recently The Paris Review, ... Read more

Reviews for Field Requiem
'As a poet, Benning communicates feeling through words - and... she does so piercingly.' - The Toronto Star

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