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Stress Fractures: Essays on Poetry
Where can the poem go in the age of the supercomputer? What do Wordsworth, Byron and British rapper Roots Manuva have in common? Would Emily Dickinson have preferred Facebook or Twitter? Does the...
View ArticleMount London: Ascents in the Vertical City
An invisible mountain is rising above the streets of the capital – and at over 1,800 metres, it is Britain’s highest peak. This ingenious new book is an account of the ascent of ‘Mount London’ by a...
View ArticleIn the Catacombs: A Summer Among the Dead Poets of West Norwood Cemetery
Opened in 1837 and inspired by the Pere Lachaise in Paris, West Norwood became known as the Millionaire’s Cemetery. But within its opulent grounds there are twelve buried names whose currency is...
View ArticleForgive the Language: Essays on Poets & Poetry
Typewriters, plagiarism and the poetic line are just three of the subjects under the spotlight in this book of essays by much-loved literary blogger Katy Evans-Bush. Studies of Ted Hughes, Louis...
View ArticleCenotaph South: Mapping the Lost Poets of Nunhead Cemetery
Step through the iron gates of one of London’s most spectacular Victorian cemeteries on the hunt for the lost poets of Nunhead. Literary investigator Chris McCabe pushes back the tangled ivy and hacks...
View ArticleCenotaph South: Mapping the Lost Poets of Nunhead Cemetery (Paperback)
ORDER THE NEW PAPERBACK EDITION OF CENOTAPH SOUTH AND GET A BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATED MAP OF LONDON’S LOST POETS FREE Step through the iron gates of one of London’s most spectacular Victorian cemeteries...
View ArticleThe Old Weird Albion
A woman stands at the edge of a cliff, looking out to sea and the horizon. Dancers welcome the Sun in a circle of stones. A dowsing rod turns without warning. A church bell. Footsteps. The Old Weird...
View ArticleTwenty Theatres to See Before You Die
A ruined playhouse, haunted halls, a stage hewn from granite cliffs. Theatres on wheels, squeezed into a former public lavatory and rescued from fire. A theatre that is not there at all. Making the...
View ArticleLow Country: Brexit on the Essex Coast
Low Country records his probing, hallucinatory journeys along crumbling sea-walls and through retail parks, past abandoned military forts and plotlands. He uncovers an ancient battlefield upstream from...
View ArticleThe East Edge
In The East Edge, McCabe leaves the safety of streetlights behind and walks in the footsteps of William Morris and W.G. Sebald through one of London’s most enigmatic Victorian cemeteries. Stealing...
View ArticleSanatorium
On her return to London, she attempts to continue her recovery using an £80 inflatable blue bathtub. The tub becomes a metaphor for the intrusion of disability; a trip hazard in the middle of an...
View ArticleHeavy Time
Vivid in her evocation of a landscape of ancient chapels, ruined farms and suburban follies, Overall’s secular pilgrim elevates the ordinary, collecting roadside objects — feathers, a bingo card, a...
View ArticleBuried Garden
Propelled through Stoke Newington’s garden-cemetery by Edgar Allan Poe, Arthur Machen and Iain Sinclair, McCabe discovers the rich stories of resurrectionists, nonconformists, celebrated hymnologists,...
View ArticleThe Actual Essays
Pre-order The Actual Essays now for delivery in October 2022. Each copy will be numbered and signed by the author.
View ArticleForgive the Language: Essays on Poets & Poetry
Studies of Ted Hughes, Louis MacNeice and Dylan Thomas sit alongside a new look at Keats, a search for forgotten war poet Eloise Robinson, and practical guides on poetic technique. Katy Evans-Bush...
View ArticleFeral Borough
Meryl Pugh reimagines the wild as ‘feral’, recording the fauna and flora of Leytonstone in prose as incisive as it is lyrical. Here, on the edge of the city, red kite and parakeets thrive alongside...
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