Calendar
Owen Sheers * Track #23 On Skirrid Hill
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Album Skirrid Hill
- #1
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- #2Mametz Wood
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- #3The Farrier
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- #4Inheritance
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- #5Marking Time
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- #6Show
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- #7
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- #8Winter Swans
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- #9Night Windows
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- #10Keyways
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- #11Border Country
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- #12Farther
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- #13Trees
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- #14Hedge School
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- #15Joseph Jones
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- #16Late Spring
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- #17Equation
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- #18Swallows
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- #19On Going
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- #20Y Gaer (The Hill Fort)
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- #21The Hill Fort (Y Gaer)
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- #22Intermission
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- #23Calendar
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- #24Flag
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- #25The Steelworks
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- #26Song
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- #27Landmark
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- #28Happy Accidents
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- #29
Drinking with HitlerOwen Sheers
- #30Four Movements in the Scale of Two
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- #31Liable to Floods
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- #32History
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- #33Amazon
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- #34Shadow Man
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- #35Under the Superstition Mountains
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- #36Service
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- #37The Fishmonger
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- #38Stitch in Time
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- #39L.A. Evening
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- #40The Singing Men
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- #41The Wake
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- #42Skirrid Fawr
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Calendar by Owen Sheers
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Owen SheersAbout
‘Skirrid Hill’ takes its origin from the Welsh, ‘Ysgirid Fawr’ which roughly translates as ‘shattered mountain’. ‘Skirrid’ can also mean ‘divorced or separated’ – the theme is the connotation of something broken down or split away — the natural deterioration and separation of people and things.
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Calendar Annotated
Spring
Swallows crotchet and
minim the telephone wires,
sing volts down the line.
Summer
Bees go down at the
lips of foxgloves, nervous like
a lover's first time.
Autumn
A spider has danced
a fingerprint in the space
between two branches.
Winter
Nests clot in the veins
of the tree- the rooks are a
passing infection.