Speculatrix Wadih Sa’adeh “The poems are funny

“The poems are funny

though this can sometimes involve becoming trapped in an absurd or confining persona

and the long-awaited Lebanon: Poems of Love and War by Nadia Tuéni

M Wynn Thomas

Her debut poetry collection

Speculatrix Wadih Sa’adeh “The poems are funnyIn 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. Taking its name from the term for a female spy, Speculatrix is at once the voyeur and the observed. Fame and death are McCabes subjects, sifted and strained through his poems urgent rhythms. At the heart of the book, a sequence of wild, neurotic sonnets tears