Shadow of the Owl by Matthew Sweeney
PBS Wild Card Winter 2020
Carrie Etter Ramona Herdman

Ramona Herdman

dogs and a jovial uncle

He is a cheerful grumbler always on the lookout for food and a quick kip

scientific and non-linguistical approaches that underpin these marine lyrics reveal the slender folds between internal and external worlds

laced with breathtaking imagery

Shadow of the Owl by Matthew Sweeney <br><b>PBS Wild Card Winter 2020</b><br> Carrie Etter Ramona HerdmanShadow of the Owl is Matthew Sweeney's final collection, bringing together the poems he wrote during a year of debilitating illness. He died from Motor Neuron Disease in 2018 shortly after publishing My Life as a Painter, written before he became ill, but which was like all his previous collections preparation for this final work. In a sequence of dark fables, a hapless figure is hounded by a procession of invisible enemies who want him dead. These