Field Requiem by Sheri Benning Glyn Maxwell With language as its theme

With language as its theme

and there is a new range to the music - sometimes headlong

This new translation combines her two collections

studied in Leipzig with a friend of Beethoven before immigrating to the UK

razor-sharp memory

Field Requiem by Sheri Benning Glyn Maxwell With language as its themeShortlisted 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,