SpeculatrixIn 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

a profound interest in the wars of the last century

There’s rigorous scholarship here

In the year after his death a first collection

Translated from the Arabic by Issa J

Together with her ongoing involvement with Irish literary festivals such as the Yeats Summer School

the surreal and the bizarre

Mícheál Fanning practises as a medical doctor in County Kerry

the way that most tongues sing along

I am so happy to hear that Henry is playing again

the blue shirt your auntie made you

with an appreciation by translator Margaret Furniss

a fresh sense of humour and most importantly – a sense of moderation