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Matthew Caley's Thirst (Slow Dancer, 1999) was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection, and followed by The Scene of My Former Triumph (Wrecking Ball Press, 2005), Apparently (Bloodaxe Books, 2010); his 'lost second collection, Professor Glass (Donut Press, 2011); and his fifth and sixth collection, Rake (Bloodaxe Books, 2016) and Trawlerman's Turquoise (Bloodaxe Books, 2019). His work has been included in many anthologies, including Roddy Lumsden's Identity Parade (Bloodaxe Books, 2010) and John Stammers' Picador Book of Love Poems. He has also co-edited Pop Fiction: The Song in Cinema with Stephen Lannin (Intellect, 2005). He lives in London with artist Pavla Alchin and their two daughters.
Decidedly indecorous, Caley's vocabulary pricks his readers to keep the action anachronistic and contemporary... the book is a Waste Land of sorts, punctuated with Pound-like fragments...carefully [meticulously] crafted. -- Edwina Attlee * The Poetry Review, on Rake * A series of densely written love poems in which the reader is aware of something strange and beautiful (and perhaps a little dishonest) going on behind the scenes... It is this sense of play that makes the poems so striking, as well as the tightly reigned undertones of kitsch... Rake seems to have created a brow of its own, colloquial enough to keep you reading, yet complex enough to keep you uncomfortable...the reader is aware of something strange and beautiful. -- Emma Hammond * Poetry London * Formally outrageous, culturally light-fingered, Caley's vision and wit make for poems that turn a wondrous, great lamp on the inter-relatedness of all things. An important poet. -- John Stammers
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