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Cowboy
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- Book Synopsis
- Shortlisted for the Forward Prize Best First Collection 2023. The 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 restlessly between rural Wales, London and the American South; between the esoteric spaces of the internet; between the artlessness of childhood and adolescence transfigured inexplicably into a disquieting adulthood, with its attendant weirdness of rent-paying, cohabiting, the churn of mindless work and alienation. The generous abundance of Cowboy's references - memes, early noughties television shows, pop songs, cities and their suburbs, video games - bring anxiety and pressure, joy and glory to this singularly impressive debut.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781800818149
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Cheerio, (07 September 2023)
- Number of Pages
- 67
- Weight
- 114 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 198 x 130 x 9 mm
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