{"product_id":"speculatrix-paperback","title":"Speculatrix - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eChris McCabe\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 76\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.18 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 05, 2014\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41729885995143,"sku":"9781908058256","price":21.58,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/02c6485044ca4089cf6b3a3b47304ccc.webp?v=1734098037","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/speculatrix-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}