a chimeric creature – Miss Molasses – emerging from the old docks
the beautifully realised sequences in Wristwatch are moving
There’s certainly a sculptural quality to this writing
Like the world we live in
Threa Almontaser and Tanatsei Gambura
The Coin by Caleb Parkin Troubador a chimeric creature – MissThe 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