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Trawlerman's Turquoise

Trawlerman's Turquoise

Caley, Matthew

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ISBN10: 1780374887
ISBN13: 9781780374888
Publisher: Bloodaxe Books
Published: Sep 26 2019
Pages: 80
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.40 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
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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