Speculatrix Wadih Sa’adeh M Wynn Thomas

M Wynn Thomas

the poet and critic Hugh McFadden

as Young Emma

Her third and most recent poetry collection is Lady in a Boat (Peepal Tree

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Speculatrix Wadih Sa’adeh M Wynn ThomasIn 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