The Coin by Caleb Parkin Troubador dodges an academic conference

dodges an academic conference

There’s certainly a sculptural quality to this writing

a chimeric creature – Miss Molasses – emerging from the old docks

Threa Almontaser and Tanatsei Gambura

author of Measures of Expatriation (Forward Prize

The Coin by Caleb Parkin Troubador dodges an academic conferenceThe 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