Shadow of the Owl
Shadow of the Owl Shadow of the Owl is Matthew Sweeney's final collection, bringing together the poems he wrote during a year of debilitating illness. In a sequence of dark fables, a hapless figure…
Specifikacia Shadow of the Owl
Shadow of the Owl
Shadow of the Owl is Matthew Sweeney's final collection, bringing together the poems he wrote during a year of debilitating illness. In a sequence of dark fables, a hapless figure is hounded by a procession of invisible enemies who want him dead. He died from Motor Neuron Disease in 2018 shortly after publishing My Life as a Painter, written before he became ill, but - like all his previous collections - preparation for this final work.
A menacing owl comes to the garden each night for twelve nights, but refuses to deliver its devastating news. These jokers - kidnappers, assassins, liars all - have many methods at their disposal, from crucifixion or hanging to bombing or mauling by crocodile... All of Sweeney's verve and spiky humour are present in these last poems, following, as always, the unnerving logic of dreams.
But the dream has become a nightmare, and the catastrophe, impending
Shadow of the Owl
The Cry of the Owl
Day Of The Owl
The Shadow of the Gods
Shadow of the Wind
Valley of the Shadow
Shadow Of The Fox
Shadow of the Eighth
Shadow of the Moon
Shadow of the Volcano
Shadow of the Titanic
Shadow of the Comet