The Triumph of Cancer - Softcover

Chris McCabe

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1908058609 ISBN 13: 9781908058607

Publisher: Penned in the Margins, 2018

Synopsis

The Triumph of Cancer blurs the borders of science and poetry, working with forensic attention to capture the inscape of the living world.

In this powerful new collection, presented as a museum of artefacts, Chris McCabe returns to the site of personal trauma to confront disease head-on. Elegies for his father, poets and celebrities mingle with still-life portraits of organic and synthetic subjects. These poems move with lyric grace and surgical precision against a backdrop of terror and cancerous global politics, showing McCabe at the height of his powers: dextrous, darkly comic and a true original..

About this title

About the Author

Chris McCabe was born in Liverpool in 1977. His most recent poetry collection is Speculatrix (Penned in the Margins, 2014), which followed three previous books The Hutton Inquiry, Zeppelins and THE RESTRUCTURE. In 2014 he was shortlisted for the Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry. His creative non-fiction book In the Catacombs: A Summer Among the Dead Poets of West Norwood Cemetery was published in 2014. His work has been described by The Guardian as an impressively inventive survey of English in the early 21st century. He works as the Poetry Librarian at the Poetry Library and teaches for the Poetry School.

Edition details

• Publisher: Penned in the Margins
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1908058609
• ISBN 13: 9781908058607
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 100