Field Requiem by Sheri Benning Pablo Neruda like a person who cannot

like a person who cannot sleep and stares and stares all night at a blank wall

Emeritus Professor Keith Barnham

opposing his government

record the loss of the poet’s mother in some of his most moving poems to date

A teacher asked me a question

Field Requiem by Sheri Benning Pablo Neruda like a person who cannotShortlisted 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,