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To Abandon Wizardry, Matthew Caley's seventh collection, explores a world where it's harder and harder to tell what's real and what's not. Where our political and cultural reality seems so unbelievable, we search for a plot and find one that comes from the Harry Potter playbook. Our screens full of wonders, our streets full of decay.

Trawlerman's Turquoise, Matthew Caley's sixth collection, brings together elements as diverse as telepathy, Madame Blavatsky, epistolary novels, muse worship and Balzac's coffee addiction.

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From their instantly split beginnings, these poems might extol glaciers and cult post-punk singers, mis-hear W.B. Yeats, get drunk, argue with Roman consuls, empathize with Roadrunner, crash several vehicles, chronicle a parallel Proust, or watch Jon Snow lose his equilibrium. There are odes to dead flies, obscure Western actors, Louis Zukofsky, and the pancreas. Or are there? It's not that the poems are about these things so much as that thes...

Poems from the diary of an immortal time-travelling rake, or someone imagining themselves to be such a rake, having drunk too many espressos? A series of beautifully skewed, left-field, back-handed love poems.