Sheri Benning’s fourth collection of poetry, Field Requiem, is forthcoming with Carcanet Press in 2021.
Poems from Field Requiem have been published in The Paris Review, PN Review, The Times Literary Supplement, Prairie Fire, The Manchester Review and Grain Magazine.
She completed a PhD at the University of Glasgow and currently lives in Saskatoon where she teaches.
The Season's Vagrant Light: New and Selected Poems
Empathy and compassion are intellectual nourishment in this work, which at the same time fiercely contemplates how we are, even when among others, our own relentless companions."
- Karen Solie
"These poems stop the heart and recharge the senses…They seem to be teaching language fresh tricks of reception to catch the quick of experience."
- Don McKay
Thin Moon Psalm
“...Sheri Benning performs an uncanny trick: she uses words as a means of hearing as well as saying things. As we read her graceful generous poems we join with her in drinking the world in – its darkness and loveliness and nameless potencies.”
- John Steffler
“…[T]he prairie landscape and sky-world, the temporality of passionate human connection; the physicality of memory and grief are the deep streams of metaphor this book engages. Sheri Benning is a marvel of a poet.”
- Sharon Thesen
Earth After Rain
“This first book of poems shows striking sensitivity to the verve and resonance of words, with openness to sensual and exploratory language…”
- Erin Mouré
“Sheri Benning's poems are born alive on the page; they're surprising, fresh, evocative of prairie landscape and bursting with emotional intelligence. I feel both smarter and wiser after entering her world…”- Susan Musgrave
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