Trawlerman's Turquoise

By Matthew Caley

Trawlerman's Turquoise, Matthew Caley's sixth collection, features various seemingly recherch 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 communiqu s, false reports and information overload - destabilising and exhilarating in equal measure.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1780374887
• ISBN13: 9781780374888
• Release Date: September 2019
• Publisher: Bloodaxe Books
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.1"