Speculatrix Wadih Sa’adeh the poet and critic Hugh

the poet and critic Hugh McFadden

Mainstream brings thirty authors in from the margins to occupy centre-page

Her debut poetry collection

McLean’s story is one of glorious triumph over the drug addiction that affected so many of his friends and might have destroyed him

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Speculatrix Wadih Sa’adeh the poet and critic HughIn 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