Trawlerman's Turquoise - Softcover

Caley, Matthew

 
9781780374888: Trawlerman's Turquoise

Inhaltsangabe

Trawlerman s Turquoise, Matthew Caley s sixth collection, features various seemingly recherché 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 communiqués, false reports and information overload destabilising and exhilarating in equal measure.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

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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