Skirrid A05

Question 1

What did the Independent say of Sheers’ work?

Answer 1

‘He is the war poet of our time.’

Question 2

What does Sheers say of landscape and people?

Answer 2

“You can’t separate landscape from people. They’re completely imbricated.”

Question 3

What does Lisa Gee say of Sheers’ poetry?

Answer 3

‘Sheers may eulegise, but he doesn’t romanticise.’

Question 4

What does Darnell Walker say of marginalisation?

Answer 4

‘When you’re marginalised, there are no ‘them people’ if we are all on the outskirts of the same margin.

Question 5

What does Eric Wiener say of marginalisation?

Answer 5

‘Geniuses are always marginalised in one way or another, Someone wholly invested in the status quo is unlikely to disrupt it.’

Question 6

what does Sheers say of writing poetry?

Answer 6

‘A poem is not worth putting out into the world unless the experience is going to resonate with other people.’

Question 7

What does Granger say of Sheers’ attitude to women?

Answer 7

‘Skirt if offers worship of women, the most impressive tribute is to the woman in ‘Amazon.’

Question 8

What does Kathryn Simpson say of the Pastors?

Answer 8

‘They are named after a small bird and a small fish, which suggests that outside such a rigidly patriarchal institution their real importance would be minimal.’