In his most daring collection to date, Chris McCabe delves into the
shadowy recesses of London history, bringing forth unsettling
anachronisms and revealing the city as a perilous place to exist.
Taking its name from the term for a female spy, Speculatrix is at
once the voyeur and the observed. Fame and death are McCabe's
subjects, sifted and strained through his poems' urgent rhythms. At
the heart of the book, a sequence of wild, neurotic sonnets tears
at the corpus of Elizabethan and Jacobean theatre to conjure a
visceral landscape of decay and financial collapse. Extending the
collection beyond his trademark urban locale are startling poems
for the loved and departed: from the artist Francis Bacon to the
poets Arthur Rimbaud and Barry MacSweeney. In Speculatrix McCabe
has pulled out all the stops, showing why he is considered one of
British poetry's most arresting and pioneering spirits.
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