Field Requiem by Sheri Benning John Wilkinson and combine an exacting eye

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What sets new ecopoetry apart is that it is written on the edge of a precipice

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'Helen Ivory creates a troubled yet beguiling world rich in irony and disquiet

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Field Requiem by Sheri Benning John Wilkinson and combine an exacting eyeShortlisted 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,