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PAMPHLET

The Coin

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Caleb Parkin

£8.99

£14.00

RRP £12.00

ISBN 978-1-915079-44-2

The 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 with a confident freshness. The poems in this collection are bold, witty, moving and nuanced. Parkin writes about the mother/son relationship in a way that is poignant, but not sentimental, he captures the mirroring of self within that special bond and is able to use that as a way to explore the complex solar movements of families in orbit around the mother figure. These are sharp poems, moreish…

- Wendy Pratt, When I Think of My Body as a Horse

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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