{"product_id":"speculatrix-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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chris McCabe","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56512100827478,"sku":"9781908058256","price":12.49,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0886\/3206\/6390\/files\/9781908058256.jpg?v=1794089902","url":"https:\/\/www.bookshop.ee\/products\/speculatrix-9781908058256","provider":"Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}