The Triumph of Cancer

Author(s): McCabe, Chris,
Binding: Paperback,
Date of Publication: 01/11/2018,
Pagination: 90 pages,
Series: N/A,
Imprint: Penned in the Margins,
Published By: Penned in the Margins,
Book Classification: Poetry by individual poets
ISBN13\EAN\SKU: 9781908058607
Description: 

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, darklycomic and a true original.