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Cenotaph South: Mapping the Lost Poets of Nunhead Cemetery

Cenotaph South: Mapping the Lost Poets of Nunhead Cemetery


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Step Through the iron gates of London's most spectacular Victorian Cemetery on the hunt for the lost poets of Nunhead in Centaph South. Literary investigator Chris McCabe pushes back the tangled ivy and hacks his way through the poetic history of south-east London, revealing a map of intense artistic activity with Nunhead at its heart: from Charlotte Mew in Nunhead and Barry MacSweeney in Dulwich to Robert Browning and William Blake in Peckham. Join McCabe on a journey back in time along underground rivers, through Elizabethan villages and urban woodland. Discover the surprising lives and lines of writers neglected amongst the moss-covered monuments of Nunhead Cemetery: from the ‘Laureate of the Babies’ and a New Zealander soldier-poet to those who chronicled London at the height of her industrial powers. But this is also a personal journey that highlights poetry’s force in overcoming trauma; McCabe’s exploration of Nunhead Cemetery is interwoven with diary entries that document his mother’s illness. In this latest instalment in an ambitious project to plot the dead poets of the Magnificent Seven – London’s great Victorian cemeteries – McCabe drills deep into the psyche of the city, and into his own past. Encounters with the dead and forgotten are charted in sinuous prose and with a wry humour that belies his meticulous research. Cenotaph South offers a powerful meditation on art, writing, memory and community, confirming McCabe as contemporary poetry’s most innovative thinker. This is essential reading for anyone who has ever wondered what lies behind the canon, or beyond the cemetery gates.

Table of Contents:
PrologueWhite Feather, New HawthornAngels Planted in Hawthorn Bowers: William Blake at Peckham RyeEntering Nunhead CemeteryThe White GoddessThe Fall and Rise of Nunhead CemeteryThe Prince of Sparty Lea at Dulwich CollegeInto the Valley of DeathAt Home with the BBC: Reconsidering the CanonNunhead Poets: William Cox Bennett and Joshua RussellThe Goose Pie at Telegraph Hill: Robert Browning after SordelloNunhead Poets: Cuthbert Collingwood and Kirwan de VerdonCFCs and English Bluebells: into Dulwich WoodsNunhead Poets: Colonel Richard Hort and Charles Godfrey TurnerThe Land Built on Poetry: Walking with Edward Alleyn and B.S. Johnson in Dulwich VillageNunhead Poets: Albert Craig and William HerbertDrawing a Casket Around MyselfNunhead Poets: Richard Alfred Davenport and Marian RichardsonNunhead Poet: Tom HoodHaunted London: The Lost Chronologer Walter ThornburyThis Place is Not Real: In Nunhead Cemetery with Charlotte MewCenotaph South: Mapping the New Peckham

About the Author :
Chris McCabe’s work crosses 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, was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. He is the editor of 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 underneath Hampstead Heath. He works as the National Poetry Librarian at Southbank Centre’s National Poetry Library


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781908058409
  • Publisher: Penned In The Margins
  • Publisher Imprint: Penned in the Margins
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: Mapping the Lost Poets of Nunhead Cemetery
  • ISBN-10: 1908058404
  • Publisher Date: 12 Nov 2016
  • Binding: Hardback
  • No of Pages: 250
  • Weight: 585 gr


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