Skirrid Hill / Owen Sheers.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sheers, Owen, 1974-

Language:

English

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

ix, 52 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Bridgend : Seren in association with The Wordsworth Trust, [2005]

Summary:

Ideas of separation and divorce inhabit many of the poems in Owen Sheers' eagerly-awaited second collection: the geographical and linguistic divides of borders, the separation of the living and the dead, the movement from childhood to adulthood, the fraying of relationships. Such divides are both moments of 'mark-making' and moments of loss, of beginnings and endings. It is in the acute awareness of such moments of separation - past or impending - and in the friction between these two diverse states that Sheers' penetrating, tender poems are often formed. At once grounded and lyrical, the poems in Skirrid Hill reveal the continuing growth of a poet gifted with a rare descriptive power and a uniquely sensitive insight into the trials of life which make us human.

Contents:

Mametz Wood 1

The Farrier 2

Inheritance 3

Marking Time 4

Show 5

Valentine 6

Winter Swans 7

Night Windows 8

Keyways 9

Border Country 10

Farther 12

Trees 13

Hedge School 14

Joseph Jones 15

Late Spring 16

The Equation 17

Swallows 18

On Going 19

Y Gaer 20

The Hill Fort 21

Intermission 23

Calendar 24

Flag 25

The Steelworks 26

Song 27

Landmark 28

Happy Accidents 29

Drinking with Hitler 30

Four Movements in the Scale of Two 31

Liable to Floods 33

History 35

Amazon 36

Shadow Man 39

Under the Superstition Mountains 40

Service 41

The Fishmonger 46

Stitch in Time 47

L.A. Evening 49

The Singing Men 50

The Wake 51

Skirrid Fawr 52.

ISBN:

1854114034

OCLC:

62177131