The Coin by Caleb Parkin Troubador author of Measures of Expatriation

author of Measures of Expatriation (Forward Prize

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

"It’s a book that enlarges the poem

a stopping-point on the Silk Road

There’s certainly a sculptural quality to this writing

The Coin by Caleb Parkin Troubador author of Measures of ExpatriationThe 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