Apparently - Couverture souple

Caley, Matthew

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1852248637 ISBN 13 : 9781852248635

Editeur : Bloodaxe Books Ltd, 2010

Synopsis

Every poem in Matthew Caley’s Apparently begins – or occasionally ends – with the word ‘apparently’. In conversation this word usually precedes a scurrilous piece of gossip or hearsay, allowing the speaker to voice what cannot be substantiated, for in our increasingly mediated world, what is "apparent" often has more authority than "what actually is".

From this instantly split beginning, a poem might extol glaciers and cult post-punk singers, mishear W.B. Yeats, get drunk, argue with Roman consuls, empathise 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 these things get caught up in each poem's need to be. Through this can be glimpsed the self fighting the self, desire and darker intimations. Against any notion of "poetic truth" these poems luxuriate in the fabulous lie. Apparently.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Matthew Caley is a tutor/mentor for the Poetry School and has also recently taught poetry at the University of St Andrews (twice), the University of Winchester and Royal Holloway University, London. His first collection, Thirst (Slow Dancer, 1999), was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection. He has published six more since, four with Bloodaxe, Apparently (2010), Rake (2016), Trawlerman’s Turquoise (2019) and To Abandon Wizardry (2023). His work has featured in many anthologies, including Identity Parade: New British and Irish Poetry (Bloodaxe Books, 2010), Poems of the Decade (Forward Worldwide, 2011), The Picador Book of Love Poems (Picador, 2011), Pestilence (Lapwing, Belfast, 2020) and Divining Dante (Recent Work Press, 2021). Prophecy Is Easy, a pamphlet of very loose versions from French twentieth century poets, was published by Blueprint in 2021. He’s read his work from StAnza in Fife – where he gave the StAnza Lecture 2020 – to the Globe Theatre, London; from Galway to the Czech Republic, to Novi Sad, Serbia. He lives in London with the Czech-born artist Pavla Alchin. They have two daughters, Iris and Mina.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Bloodaxe Books Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1852248637
• ISBN 13: 9781852248635
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 80
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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