Cowboy by Kandace Siobhan Walker Liverpool University Press Shuttle and Greening’s deep connection

Shuttle and Greening’s deep connection of memory to this place brings forth a remarkable cycle of magical and bitter-sweet poems

seemingly realistic narratives that mystify like an Escher building

as well as those from across the UK

when the curtains draw back and the lights sharpen

Cowboy by Kandace Siobhan Walker Liverpool University Press Shuttle and Greening’s deep connectionThe 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