Crash Wake and other Poems by Owen Lowery
PBS Winter Wild Card 2021 Ted Hughes Award Winner William McGonagall

William McGonagall

 Billy relates to friendship between a man and a woman

speakers move with the force of what cannot be contained by the limits of the American imagination

but who nevertheless ultimately embody the human condition

Crash Wake and other Poems by Owen Lowery <b><br>PBS Winter Wild Card 2021</b> Ted Hughes Award Winner William McGonagallIn February 2020, ventilated tetraplegic poet Owen Lowery and his wife, Jayne, were travelling to Scotland when their vehicle aquaplaned, spun round on the motorway, hit a barrier, flipped over the barrier and rolled over several times, before coming to rest on its side in a field. Having barely survived, Lowery emerged into a world transformed by the coronavirus, one in which life and death had moved closer. During his months of recovery from three