There is a circle around London formed by the city’s dead, a ring of Victorian cemeteries known as the Magnificent Seven. Chris McCabe has set himself a challenge: to find a great, lost poet buried within this ‘spectral circuit’. From Norwood and Nunhead in the south to the great necropolis of Highgate – will he find what he’s set out to discover? See literary London from a new perspective as the city’s forgotten voices rise up, demanding to be heard.
Chris McCabe’s work spans artforms and genres including poetry, fiction, non-fiction, drama and visual art. His work has been shortlisted for the Ted Hughes Award and the Republic of Consciousness Prize. His latest poetry collection, The Triumph of Cancer, is a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and he is the editor of several anthologies including Poems from the Edge of Extinction: An Anthology of Poetry in Endangered Languages. His first novel, Dedalus, is a sequel to Ulysses; his second, Mud, a version of the legend of Orpheus and Eurydice, set beneath Hampstead Heath. He works at the National Poetry Library in his role as the National Poetry Librarian.
