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. 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...
Shadow 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...
