The Triumph of Cancer

by Chris McCabe

The Triumph of Cancer blurs the borders of science and poetry, working with forensic attention to capture the inscape of the living world. In this powerful new collection, presented as a museum of artefacts, Chris McCabe returns to the site of personal trauma to confront disease head-on. Elegies for his father, poets and celebrities mingle with still-life portraits of organic and synthetic subjects. These poems move with lyric grace and surgical precision against a backdrop of terror and cancerous global politics, showing McCabe at the height of his dextrous, darkly comic and a true original..

Genres: Poetry

100 pages, Paperback

Published November 1, 2018

Reviews

[Serge ♆ Neptune]

4.5 really. A gorgeous work in its skilful account of a rather difficult topic. Favourite poem was Anchor.