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Field Requiem

  • ISBN-13: 9781800171510
  • Publisher: CARCANET PRESS
    Imprint: CARCANET PRESS
  • By Sheri Benning
  • Price: AUD $29.99
  • Stock: 10 in stock
  • Availability: Order will be despatched as soon as possible.
  • Local release date: 19/01/2022
  • Format: Paperback (216.00mm X 135.00mm) 128 pages Weight: 130g
  • Categories: Poetry by individual poets [DCF]
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New contemporary prairie gothic collection from Canadian poet Sheri Benning, a lead poet from Carcanets bestselling anthology New Poetries V. Field Requiem bears witness to the violence inherent in the shift to industrialised farming in prairie Canada. Sheri Bennings 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 and present, between the unconscious and the real, break down. The poem reckons with the devastating social and environmental impacts of the agribusiness industry. The long elegy, Let Them Rest, takes its cue from the Dies Irae and the Latin liturgy of the Requiem mass to mourn Saskatchewans many ruined farmsteads and razed communities. Throughout, the poems trace the still luminous contours of love - for family, for the land - in rendering the horrors of loss. The incantatory voice rises from dream into dark vision. The book also includes lyric poems that give voice to the affective consequences of loss brought on by climate change and factory farming and renew a sense of locality in the teeth of corporate farming practices. Benning has worked with her sister Heather Benning, who constructs large-scale, site specific installations which explore and extend these themes.

Sheri Benning is the author of three books of poetry, most recently The Seasons Vagrant Light: New and Selected (Carcanet Press). Her previous two collections published in Canada, Thin Moon Psalm (Brick Books) and Earth After Rain (Thistledown Press). Her poems, essays and short stories have appeared in Canadian, British, Irish and Italian anthologies and literary magazines.

• New ‘contemporary prairie gothic’ collection from Canadian poet Sheri Benning, a lead poet from Carcanet’s bestselling anthology New Poetries V.        
• Her first two collections each won two Saskatchewan Book Awards.
• Lyric poetry that charts a way of life collapsing: the world of the family farm.  
• Poems give voice to the affective consequences of loss brought on by climate change and the shift to industrialized farming.                                                                                  
• Inspired by her native home, rural Saskatchewan, its prairie, rivers and fauna.  

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