Trawlerman's Turqoise by Matthew Caley Pedro Mir its peculiar commitments

its peculiar commitments

The poet throws the poem for someone who isn’t always there to catch

Residual Synonyms for the Name of God performs the proliferation of language and culture in our late capitalist moment as a residual structure of a religious past

the John Bray Award for Poetry

Trawlerman's Turqoise by Matthew Caley Pedro Mir its peculiar commitmentsTrawlermans Turquoise, Matthew Caleys sixth collection, features various seemingly recherchelements 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