Matthew Caley

Trawlerman's Turquoise (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

¿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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloodaxe Books
• Seitenzahl: 79
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. September 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781780374895
• Artikelnr.: 57696524

Autorenporträt

¿Matthew Caley's Thirst (Slow Dancer, 1999) was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection. He's published ¿ve more since, three with Bloodaxe, Apparently (2010), Rake (2016), and Trawlerman's Turquoise (2019), his sixth. His work has featured in many anthologies including Poems of the Decade (Forward Worldwide, 2011), Identity Parade: New British and Irish Poetry (Bloodaxe Books, 2010) and The Picador Book of Love Poems (Picador, 2011). He's read his work from Morden Tower, Newcastle, to the National Portrait Gallery, London; from Galway to Novi Sad. In previous lives he was on the fringe of the Small Press revival in the 1980s; designed record sleeves; lived in squats in Brixton during the 80s-90s; and has taught in art schools. Recently, he's tutored for the Poetry School and taught Contemporary Poetry/Creative Writing at the School of English, University of St Andrews. He lives in London with the Czech artist Pavla Alchin and their two daughters, Iris and Mina.