Hedonism
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Nine Arches Press
Publishing:4th Sep '25
£11.99
This title is due to be published on 4th September, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
How the past haunts the present, exploring language, place, grief and connection. From prolific multi-genre writer.
Join a carnival of characters including Bez from Happy Mondays, Jorge Louis Borges and a medieval pilgrim on a journey to buy a PlayStation, in Chris McCabe's sixth and most daring collection. Part-written in Scouse dialect and invented languages, Hedonism offsets the comic with the elegiac in a haunting and polyphonic work exploring the intersection of grief, place, memory and imagination.
Join a carnival of characters including Bez from Happy Mondays, Jorge Louis Borges and a medieval pilgrim on a journey to buy a PlayStation, in Chris McCabe's sixth and most daring collection. Part-written in Scouse dialect and invented languages, Hedonism offsets the comic with the elegiac in a haunting and polyphonic work exploring the intersection of grief, place, memory and imagination.
‘If you love Chris McCabe's earlier poems as I do, you will find the voice maturing to the state of brilliance, delivering us a masterpiece! This new book is one of the best hoards of poems I have read in years! Nothing makes me happier than having poems sting me and leave me stunned!’
-- CAConrad‘Chris McCabe's poetic landscape is haunted -- Magus, doppelgänger, crypto miners, translators, Telemachus -- and from this dizzying range of hauntings and voices comes a restless and resonant interrogation of what it means to be strangely alive, now, with all its Surrealism, impossibilities and emotive failures: 'Told we were investing our power to unlock rare jewels, we were but clerks'. And yet the poet here is a 'greenfinch', sewing everything together with a rare and dialectal music.’
-- Richard SISBN: 9781916760264
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