Cazique by Matthew Clegg John Matthias Winner of the Nobel Prize

Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature

or a mirror

the line of longitude is the ‘zero point’ through which these forces speak: the intersecting planes of poetry and song

Written from an intimate knowledge of the countryside of the Calder Valley

sardonic control

Cazique by Matthew Clegg John Matthias Winner of the Nobel PrizeMatthew Clegg's third collection is a book in three movements. Officer Zipped File details the breakdown in communication between employee and employer. Holodets tackles what is lost in translation during a love affair between an English poet and a Russian immigrant. The title sequence offers the last confessions of a washed up confidence trickster: a man inspired by the 19th century swindler Gregor MacGregor the self titled Cazique of Poyais. These