Cowboy by Kandace Siobhan Walker Gillian Allnutt with something of the uncanny

with something of the uncanny in its blend of the recognisably human and apparently Other… His religious regard for the world (not the same thing as religious conviction) produces a strange translation of its ordinary terms

Fresh Out of the Sky is a book of songs

Erika Martínez

 ‘Shaughnessy can write the kind of line that is confusing in its beauty

always making magic

Cowboy by Kandace Siobhan Walker Gillian Allnutt with something of the uncannyThe 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