Swallows
Owen Sheers * Track #18 On Skirrid Hill
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Album Skirrid Hill
- #1
Last ActOwen Sheers
- #2
Mametz WoodOwen Sheers
- #3The Farrier
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- #4Inheritance
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- #5Marking Time
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- #6Show
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- #7Valentine
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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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Swallows 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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Swallows Annotated
The swallows are italic again,
cutting their sky-jive
between the telephone wires
flying in crossed lines.
Their annual regeneration
so flawless to human eyes
that there is no seam
between parent and child.
Just always the swallows
and their script of descenders,
dipping their ink to sign their signatures
across the page of the sky.