{"product_id":"speculatrix-chris-mccabe-9781908058256","title":"Speculatrix","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn his most daring collection to date, \u003cstrong\u003eChris McCabe \u003c\/strong\u003edelves into the shadowy recesses of London history, bringing forth unsettling anachronisms and revealing the city as a perilous place to exist.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTaking its name from the term for a female spy, \u003cem\u003eSpeculatrix\u003c\/em\u003e 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 \u003cem\u003eSpeculatrix, \u003c\/em\u003e McCabe has pulled out all the stops, showing why he is considered one of British poetry's most arresting and pioneering spirits.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Chris McCabe\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1908058250\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781908058256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Penned in the Margins\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/05\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 76\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.24lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.18d\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chris McCabe","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45898241016063,"sku":"9781908058256","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_dc27ea75-f8c3-4fbf-9c2f-032c3cac546f.jpg?v=1721375838","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/speculatrix-chris-mccabe-9781908058256","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}