Trawlerman’s Turquoise

Häftad, Engelska, 2019

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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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Utgivningsdatum2019-09-26
Mått156 x 234 x 8 mm
Vikt166 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieBloodaxe Books Ltd
Antal sidor80
FörlagBloodaxe Books Ltd
ISBN9781780374888

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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.

9 The Vltava10 Thaw13 Stendhal Syndrome14 In Praise of Turkish Coffee16 5.00 a.m.17 Epistolary Novels19 Aloes Démaquillant20 Summoning Spell21 Telepathy23 Bay Tree on Turner Street25 from Aphid Soliloquies27 The Crossing28 Don’t Touch that Heater31 Training at Altitude33 The Pub Crawl [Slight Return]36 The Level37 from The Foldings56 The Trap58 The Glaziers59 Line Lengths60 The Nomads62 Wake Up63 Spring Fever65 And the Horse in Each Movement67 The Weight68 The Waterfall69 Basilisk70 Meadow Saffrons72 Slow Blow Job75 The Truce76 Dear Directeur77 My Beautiful Comrade from the North79 [Prayer for] The Frazzled