transfeminist and people of colour counter-memories and histories
a stopping-point on the Silk Road
the beautifully realised sequences in Wristwatch are moving
Threa Almontaser and Tanatsei Gambura
he's programmed
The Coin by Caleb Parkin Troubador transfeminist and people of colourThe Coin focuses Caleb Parkin's poetics on his matriarchal line, cancer in the family, class, place, and other themes with moments of lyrical intensity and clarity. This is a book that undertakes explorations of identity, mortality, the grand mother son relationship, and more. These are poems about life, death, and the nature of being, in which humour, irony, and surprise are always at the edge of the page. PRAISE for The Coin: 'Caleb Parkin writes