{"product_id":"9781854114037","title":"Skirrid Hill","description":"\u003cp\u003eAuthor(s): Sheers, Owen, \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Paperback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 17\/10\/2005,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 52 pages,\u003cbr\u003e Series: N\/A, \u003cbr\u003eImprint: Seren,\u003cbr\u003e Published By: Poetry Wales Press,\u003cbr\u003e Book Classification: Poetry by individual poets\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9781854114037\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDescription:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIdeas of separation and divorce are important in Owen Sheers eagerly-awaited follow up to his acclaimed debut collection The Blue Book.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe geographical divides of borders, the separation of the dead and the living, the movement from childhood to adulthood, the ending of relationships. Such divides are both moments of 'mark-making and moments of absence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this collection it is often the awareness of such separation past or impending and the juxtaposition of these diverse states that provides the friction from which the poems are born.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSkirrid Hill revolves around the two poems Y Gaer and The Hillfort , the titles themselves suggesting the linguistic divide in Wales, from poems concerned with childhood, a Welsh landscape and family, to a more outward looking vision both geographically and historically.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWinner of the Somerset Maugham Award 2006.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Winstones","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36600860180633,"sku":"9781854114037","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0423\/0240\/6809\/products\/9781854114037.jpg?v=1602172038","url":"https:\/\/winstonebooks.pro\/products\/9781854114037","provider":"Winstone's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}