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

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

and uproarious for me as a queer neurodivergent writer of colour

something that only the finest poets achieve

Jack Mapanje

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