Shadow of the Owl by Matthew Sweeney
PBS Wild Card Winter 2020
Simon Smith including a trove of unseen

including a trove of unseen letters post-honeymoon

non-fiction or poetry best evoking the spirit of a place

‘Set mainly in London

“Early in Bitten Hair

Shadow of the Owl by Matthew Sweeney <br><b>PBS Wild Card Winter 2020</b><br> Simon Smith including a trove of unseenShadow 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