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To Abandon Wizardry
By (author) Matthew Caley
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To Abandon Wizardry, Matthew Caley's seventh collection, explores a world where it's harder and harder to tell what's real and what's not. Where our political and cultural reality seems so unbelievable, we search for a plot and find one that comes from the Harry Potter playbook. Our sky proves CGI, our touchstones AI. Our screens full of wonders, our streets full of decay. We could nod at Deep Fake, QAnon, fake news versus the 'truth' of official news, all manner of waning national myth or ponder the elsewhere we always think of escaping to, that will no doubt prove equally illusory. Set within this almost parallel world, To Abandon Wizardry features a long central poem where someone enjoys an alfresco Americano in Shadwell, London, while in dialogue with a mesh-protected sapling that transmits all the polyglot talk of the city. Either side of this we encounter revenants, disembowelled wizards, talking horses and flying houses, as the book forges its aesthetic out of the simulation, hyper-association, and over-stimulation of living in the 21st century. And it's all true.
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Publisher | Bloodaxe Books Ltd
Published date | 16 Nov 2023
Language | English
Format | Paperback / softback
Pages | 96
Dimensions | 234 x 156 x 8mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 0g
ISBN | 978-1-7803-7675-2
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BISAC | poetry / english, irish, scottish, welsh
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