Description:
Shortlisted for the Republic of Consciousness Prize 2019
A London Review Bookshop Book of the Week.
Selected by Susan Tomaselli for The Sunday Independent (Ireland)
Brief description: Chris McCabe is the author of five poetry collections, most recently The Triumph of Cancer (Penned in the Margins). Pharmapoetica, with Maria Vlotides, was shortlisted for The Ted Hughes Award and his plays Shad Thames, Broken Wharf and Mudflats have been performed in Liverpool and London. His non-fiction series, searching for a great lost poet in one of London's Magnificent Seven cemeteries, begins with In the Catacombs (selected as an LRB Bookshop book of the year) and Cenotaph South: Mapping the Lost Poets of Nunhead Cemetery. He co-edited, with Victoria Bean, The New Concrete: Visual Poetry in the 21st Century (Hayward Publishing, 2015). Dedalus (Henningham Family Press) was LRB Bookshop Book of the Week and shortlisted for The Republic of Consciousness Prize 2019. The anthology Poems From The Edge of Extinction (Chambers, 2019) was Gold Medal Winner for Poetry and Special Honours Award for Best of Anthology at the 2020 Nautilus Book Awards.
Review Quotes:
"Parts of this book will remain with me, and pollute my reading of Hamlet and Ulysses, forever. I also add it to my personal library of Great Books About Dead Fathers." - Max Porter: Author of Grief is the Thing with Feathers
"McCabe's invention never flags." - David Collard, Literary Review
"McCabe has a poet's ear for Joyce's prose style and the literary chops to square up to the daunting original; the result is Ulysses accelerated, improved and reduced." - Republic of Consciousness Prize 2019 Judges.