Speculatrix Tony Harrison

Speculatrix Tony HarrisonIn 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 McCabes subjects, sifted and strained through his poems urgent rhythms. At the heart of the book, a sequence of wild, neurotic sonnets tears

Isaac Shepherd’s mother

'The author stood for the European Parliament on the slogan 'It's a big trough and I want to get my nose in it

In Senegal

He has captured himself on paper and the book really feels as though it is him sitting there talking to you

today’s musicians encounter the old myths of Orpheus

one to learn from and one to remember

including Not A Muse: The Inner Lives of Women (2010)

Andrei Gritsman

was to provide a platform for the poetry of the first post-War generation of Eastern Europe poets

Henry Zoghaib

although not absent

It is a book which has the force of myth: revealing the fundamentals without drawing any particular attention to them