Trawlermans Turquoise by Caley, Matthew

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Author: Caley, MatthewPoetry by individual poetsPublished on 26 September 2019 by Bloodaxe Books Ltd in the United Kingdom.Paperback | 80 pages232 x 187 x 6 | 166g
Trawlermans Turquoise, Matthew Caleys sixth collection, features various seemingly recherch elements telepathy, Madame Blavatsky, epistolary novels, muse worship, Balzacs coffee addiction and Thomas Mertons accidental electrocution amongst them not always as straightforward subject matter, but caught up in the backdraft of the poems acceleration. The books title derives from the long, central, hyper-associative poem, from The Foldings trawlermans 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. Caleys 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 communiqus, false reports and information overload destabilising and exhilarating in equal measure.