Which Skirrid Hills poems to compare

‘Masculinity as deeply conflicted’

Support:

• Marking Time

• The Hill Fort

Challenge:

• The Farrier

• Joseph Jones

‘How loss shapes the emotional landscape of Skirrid Hill’

Supports:

• The Hill Fort

• Y Gaer

Challenge:

• Valentine

• Mametz Wood

‘The collection is more about identity than love’

Support:

• Border Country

• Inheritance

Challenge:

• Night Windows

• Valentine

‘Nature in Skirrid Hill reflects emotional experience’

Support:

• Skirrid Fawr

• Y Gaer

Challenge:

• Valentine

• Joseph Jones

‘The poems explore emotional repression more than expression’

Support:

• The Farrier

• Inheritance

Challenge:

• Show

• Marking Time

‘Skirrid Hill is a meditation on grief + healing’

Support:

• Y Gaer

• The Hill Fort

Challenge:

• Joseph Jones

• The Steelworks

‘Destructive love’

Support:

• Marking Time

• Night Windows

Challenge:

• Valentine

• Show

‘Sheers uses the body to explore vulnerability’

Support:

• Show

• Night Windows

Challenge:

• The Steelworks

• Joseph Jones

‘The past has a powerful hold over the present’

Support:

• On Going

• Border Country

Challenge:

• Valentine

• The Steelworks

‘Men are failures or bullies’

Support:

• The Farrier

• The Steelworks

Challenge:

• Show

• Y Gaer

‘The collection is dominated by the theme of separation’

Support:

• Marking Time

• Night Windows

Challenge:

• Valentine

• Show

‘Relationships are frail, fragile, falling apart’

Support:

• Valentine

• Keyways

Challenge:

• Night Windows

• Inheritance

‘The relationship between the earth its inhabitants is unbreakable’

Support:

• Farther

• The Hill Fort

Challenge:

• Mametz Wood

• The Wake

‘War is something unworthy of glorification’

Support:

• Mametz Wood

• The Wake

Challenge:

• The Farrier

• The Steelworks