Daniel Cowper
May 08th, 2025
After a chapbook, The God of Doors (Frog Hollow Press, 2017) and a full-length collection, Grotesque Tenderness (MQUP, 2019), Daniel Cowper of Bowen Island has released Kingdom of the Clock: A Novel in Verse (MQUP $24.95). Set in a vibrant yet ragged coastal city this verse novel begins with one day’s dawn and ends at the first light of the next. In between, Cowper tells the tales of the city’s inhabitants. They include: A mother plotting to care for her unwell adult daughter; senior and junior partners involved in a fraud weighing the risks and rewards of betraying each other; an artist racing to prevent her masterpiece from being seized to cover unpaid rent; a woman tracking her husband’s iPhone to the casino. A homeless man who doesn’t know his father is dying. 9780228023715
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