Rake by Matthew Caley Emily Berry The week after the election

The week after the election Bill Herbert and Andy Jackson decided to chart the responses of those unacknowledged legislators of the world – poets – to the new dispensation

 Guardian

“all right

in reality

September 2017

Rake by Matthew Caley Emily Berry The week after the electionThroughout Rake, Matthew Caleys fifth collection, it can appear as if we are leafing through the oblique diary of an immortal time travelling rake, one who is seeking his one true beloved through an heroic tally of amorous encounters, desperately trying to get beyond appetite; or possibly a number of parallel immortal time travelling rakes; or maybe even someone, having drunk too many espressos, imagining themselves to be such a rake. The forms used