This is a highly unusual book: every poem in Matthew Caley's "Apparently begins" - or occasionally ends - with the word 'apparently'.
From their instantly split beginnings, these poems might extol glaciers and cult post-punk singers, mis-hear W.B. Yeats, get drunk, argue with Roman consuls, empathize with Roadrunner, crash several vehicles, chronicle a parallel Proust, or watch Jon Snow lose his equilibrium. There are odes to dead flies, obscure Western actors, Louis Zukofsky, and the pancreas. Or are there? It's not that the poems are about these things so much as that these things get caught up in each poem's need to be. Through this can be glimpsed the self fighting the self, desire and darker intimations. Against any notion of "poetic truth" these poems luxuriate in the fabulous lie. Apparently.
