{"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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penned in the Margins","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50363898331410,"sku":"9781908058256","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_703046c7-54f0-4fc3-8700-b1e37b47e8c7.jpg?v=1728420755","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/speculatrix-9781908058256","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}