Cazique by Matthew Clegg Christopher Whyte In response to surges of

In response to surges of violent British nationalism and political paranoia around borders

Paula Meehan’s extraordinary new collection is both a controlled experiment with the challenge of form and

and in omens and elements of fantasy (labyrinths

the imaginary South American nation of   ‘Oblivia’

between the solitude of the dark and the awakening of the light

Cazique by Matthew Clegg Christopher Whyte In response to surges ofMatthew Clegg's third collection is a book in three movements. Officer Zipped File details the breakdown in communication between employee and employer. Holodets tackles what is lost in translation during a love affair between an English poet and a Russian immigrant. The title sequence offers the last confessions of a washed up confidence trickster: a man inspired by the 19th century swindler Gregor MacGregor the self titled Cazique of Poyais. These