Cazique by Matthew Clegg John Matthias the line of longitude is

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

In that sense Geomantic is a significant new departure and a major achievement

sardonic control

the still unfulfilled promise of Latin America

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

Cazique by Matthew Clegg John Matthias the line of longitude isMatthew 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