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’ – Charlotte Runcie
” ―Ellen Cranitch
Matthew Caley’s fifth collection
Packed with fierce poetry
Winner of the James Laughlin Award)
King of a Rainy Country by Matthew Sweeney Tony Frazer ’ – Charlotte RuncieMatthew Sweeney wrote this set of 50 prose poems in response to Baudelaire's posthumously published collection of prose poems (or petits pomes en prose, as he called them). Modelling his pieces as closely as possible on Baudelaire's, Sweeney has produced a sequence that is wide ranging in both subject and mood there are stories, parables, meditations, diatribes that are, by turns, quirky, reflective, ascerbic and funny the overall effect of which is
