{"id":6963,"date":"2014-10-22T11:31:47","date_gmt":"2014-10-22T11:31:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/?p=6963"},"modified":"2025-12-04T10:38:30","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T10:38:30","slug":"speculatrix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/2014\/10\/speculatrix\/","title":{"rendered":"Speculatrix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Taking its name from the term for a female spy, <em>Speculatrix<\/em> is at once the voyeur and the observed. Fame and death are McCabe&#8217;s subjects, sifted and strained through his poems&#8217; urgent rhythms. At the heart of the book, a sequence of wild, neurotic sonnets tears at the corpus of Elizabethan and Jacobean theatre to conjure a visceral landscape of decay and financial collapse. Extending the collection beyond his trademark urban locale are startling poems for the loved and departed: from the artist Francis Bacon to the poets Arthur Rimbaud and Barry MacSweeney. In <em>Speculatrix<\/em> McCabe has pulled out all the stops, showing why he is considered one of British poetry&#8217;s most arresting and pioneering spirits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[173,4,25,29],"tags":[149,99,196,93,103],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6963"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6963"}],"version-history":[{"count":59,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16481,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6963\/revisions\/16481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}