Trawlerman’s Turquoise
Bloodaxe Books Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-78037-488-8 (ISBN)
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.
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 Vltava
10 Thaw
13 Stendhal Syndrome
14 In Praise of Turkish Coffee
16 5.00 a.m.
17 Epistolary Novels
19 Aloes Démaquillant
20 Summoning Spell
21 Telepathy
23 Bay Tree on Turner Street
25 from Aphid Soliloquies
27 The Crossing
28 Don’t Touch that Heater
31 Training at Altitude
33 The Pub Crawl [Slight Return]
36 The Level
37 from The Foldings
56 The Trap
58 The Glaziers
59 Line Lengths
60 The Nomads
62 Wake Up
63 Spring Fever
65 And the Horse in Each Movement
67 The Weight
68 The Waterfall
69 Basilisk
70 Meadow Saffrons
72 Slow Blow Job
75 The Truce
76 Dear Directeur
77 My Beautiful Comrade from the North
79 [Prayer for] The Frazzled
| Erscheinungsdatum | 10.09.2019 |
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| Verlagsort | Tyne and Wear |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte |
| ISBN-10 | 1-78037-488-7 / 1780374887 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-78037-488-8 / 9781780374888 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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