Description
The wildness and alienation of our contemporary anxieties - diagnoses, spiritualities, memes and mythologies - bring complexity and vitality to this impressive debut.
About the Author
Kandace Siobhan Walker is a writer and artist of Canadian, Jamaican, Saltwater-Geechee and Welsh heritage. She is an editor at bath magg. In 2021, she was an Eric Gregory Award recipient and the winner of The White Review Poet's Prize. A poetry pamphlet, Kaleido, was published by Bad Betty Press in 2022. Cowboy is her first book. She lives in London.
Reviews
A collection of great promise that captures the exhilaration of being young. * Sunday Times *
This debut is hilarious, moving and dazzlingly new ... Cowboy marks the entry of a significant and exciting new voice into British poetry. -- Rebecca Tamas * The Guardian *
A truly dazzling debut, full of utterly inventive and original work ... Walker's voice is at once razor sharp and enigmatic, a sophisticated blend of control and swagger that gives the collection an assurance beyond its years. * Jane Yeh *
A phenomenal debut. Walker's voice speaks so sharply not just to this generation but also to generations past and to whatever will follow. * Gboyega Odubanjo *
Cowboy is breathtaking in its depth, rootedness and conjurings ... Kandace Siobhan Walker's exquisite touch both harnesses and transforms tradition. Certainly one of the best poets of her generation. * Lillian Allen, Poet Laureate of Toronto *
Electrifying, shocking even .. attuned precisely to the slippery present moment, reminding us that a poem might awaken something important or urgent within. * Richard Scott *
Book Information
ISBN 9781800818149
Author Kandace Siobhan Walker
Format Paperback
Page Count 80
Imprint Profile Books Ltd
Publisher Profile Books Ltd
Weight(grams) 110g
Dimensions(mm) 122mm * 191mm * 5mm