King of a Rainy Country by Matthew Sweeney Tony Frazer Over a period of fifteen

Over a period of fifteen years Clive James learned French by almost no other method than reading À la recherche du temps perdu

’ – Charlotte Runcie

Matthew Caley’s fifth collection

” ―Ellen Cranitch

our irrational fears and our loves

King of a Rainy Country by Matthew Sweeney Tony Frazer Over a period of fifteenMatthew Sweeney wrote this set of 50 prose poems in response to Baudelaire's posthumously published collection of prose poems (or petits pomes en prose, as he called them). Modelling his pieces as closely as possible on Baudelaire's, Sweeney has produced a sequence that is wide ranging in both subject and mood there are stories, parables, meditations, diatribes that are, by turns, quirky, reflective, ascerbic and funny the overall effect of which is