Owen Sheers Critics Flashcards
1
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Loss
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‘Skirrid Hill concerns loss and our vulnerability to it’ - Carrie Etter
2
Q
Fragility
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‘A sense of fragility runs through the volume’ - Carrie Etter
3
Q
Endings and beginnings
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‘The knowledge that in each ending there is the possibility of renewal’ - Garan Holcombe
4
Q
Pain
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‘The translation of pain into language’ - Helen Calcutt
5
Q
Women, relationships
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‘lyrics on women that almost invariably end in parting’ - Sarah Crown
6
Q
Wales
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‘both a citizen of Wales and the world’ - Sarah Crown
7
Q
Women
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‘Skirrid Hill offers worship of women’ - Grainger
8
Q
Tone
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‘Sheers is no miserablist’ - Neil Rollinson
