Cowboy by Kandace Siobhan Walker Liverpool University Press Sally Read

Sally Read

Marvin Thompson’s debut collection provides a refreshing perspective in a climate where Brexit turned tongues profane

seemingly realistic narratives that mystify like an Escher building

unrepeatable myth’ crackles with searing insight into what it means when a person’s own flesh and bones create in landscapes ‘unpaths

and presumed

Cowboy by Kandace Siobhan Walker Liverpool University Press Sally ReadThe poems in Cowboy are knowing, millennial, internet sick, funny, with deep undercurrents: of embodied and disembodied spiritualities; of the knowledge of animals; of familial mythologies; of grief and longing; of autism and navigating diagnoses; of early and enduring disappointment; of the wildness underneath the smooth glass and chrome surfaces of contemporary life. The echo of a question permeates the collection where does a person grow up? moving