Trawlerman's Turqoise by Matthew Caley Pedro Mir Residual Synonyms for the Name

Residual Synonyms for the Name of God performs the proliferation of language and culture in our late capitalist moment as a residual structure of a religious past

generated a storm of critical and public controversy

Although mystical elements feature throughout the collection

September 2017

the voice speaks invocations to the minute

Trawlerman's Turqoise by Matthew Caley Pedro Mir Residual Synonyms for the NameTrawlermans Turquoise, Matthew Caleys sixth collection, features various seemingly recherchelements telepathy, Madame Blavatsky, epistolary novels, muse worship, Balzacs coffee addiction and Thomas Mertons accidental electrocution amongst them not always as straightforward subject matter, but caught up in the backdraft of the poems acceleration. The books title derives from the long, central, hyper associative poem, from The Foldings trawlermans