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Like the world we live in
a stopping-point on the Silk Road
transfeminist and people of colour counter-memories and histories
Threa Almontaser and Tanatsei Gambura
The Coin by Caleb Parkin Troubador he's programmedThe 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