{"product_id":"field-requiem-paperback","title":"Field Requiem - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSheri Benning\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShortlisted 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 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 Saskatchewan's 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSheri Benning\u003c\/b\u003e grew up on a farm in central Saskatchewan, Canada. She's the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Season's Vagrant Light\u003c\/i\u003e (Carcanet Press), as well as \u003ci\u003eThin Moon Psalm \u003c\/i\u003e(Brick Books) and \u003ci\u003eEarth After Rain\u003c\/i\u003e (Thistledown Press) published in Canada. Her poems, essays, and short stories have appeared in North American, British, and European journals and anthologies, most recently \u003ci\u003eThe Paris Review, Times Literary Supplement, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ePN Review\u003c\/i\u003e. Benning completed a PhD at the University of Glasgow and currently lives in Saskatchewan, where she teaches.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 96\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.4 x 8.3 x 5.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 25, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50333339123949,"sku":"9781800171510","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0020\/8918\/9441\/files\/gODotnOA8B9781800171510.webp?v=1784984479","url":"https:\/\/www.webster.direct\/en-ca\/products\/field-requiem-paperback","provider":"Webster.Direct","version":"1.0","type":"link"}