Trawlerman's Turquoise by Caley, Matthew

Trawlerman's Turquoise (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781780374888)

Vendor: Matthew Caley
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Format: Paperback
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Trawlerman's Turquoise by Caley, Matthew

Trawlerman's Turquoise

$16.95
Trawlerman's Turquoise by Caley, Matthew

Trawlerman's Turquoise

$16.95
Format: Paperback
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Trawlerman's Turquoise, Matthew Caley's sixth collection, features various seemingly recherch elements - telepathy, Madame Blavatsky, epistolary novels, muse worship, Balzac's coffee addiction and Thomas Merton's accidental electrocution amongst them - not always as straightforward 'subject matter', but caught up in the backdraft of the poems' acceleration. The book's title derives from the long, central, hyper-associative poem, 'from The Foldings' - trawlerman's turquoise being a phrase to describe a psychic glimpse of the ocean for perennial inner-city dwellers, who have only ever heard rumour of one. Caley's lyrics and love poems are poised between sincerity and its inverse, and a seeming 'parallel world', which gradually emerges, sits at odds with, and sheds light on, the current state of our actual world - full of melting borders, random dangers, shifting identities, misread communiqu s, false reports and information overload - destabilising and exhilarating in equal measure.

Author: Matthew Caley
ISBN-10: 1780374887
ISBN-13: 9781780374888
Publisher: Bloodaxe Books
Language: English
Published: 09/26/2019
Pages: 80
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.40d
By Matthew Caley
By Matthew Caley
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Matthew Caley's Thirst (Slow Dancer, 1999) was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection, and followed by The Scene of My Former Triumph (Wrecking Ball Press, 2005), Apparently (Bloodaxe Books, 2010); his 'lost second collection, Professor Glass (Donut Press, 2011); and his fifth and sixth collection, Rake (Bloodaxe Books, 2016) and Trawlerman's Turquoise (Bloodaxe Books, 2019). His work has been included in many anthologies, including Roddy Lumsden's Identity Parade (Bloodaxe Books, 2010) and John Stammers' Picador Book of Love Poems. He has also co-edited Pop Fiction: The Song in Cinema with Stephen Lannin (Intellect, 2005). He lives in London with artist Pavla Alchin and their two daughters.

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