Chris McCabe was born in Liverpool in 1977, grew up there and studied for a degree in Literary Studies at the University of Central Lancashire in Preston. He moved to London when he was twenty-four, and now works as a Joint Librarian at the Poetry Library on the South Bank. He has published poems in a number of places including Poetry Salzburg Review, Shearsman, Magma and Poetry Review. His first collection, The Hutton Inquiry, was published by Salt in 2005. This includes a sequence of poems that chronicle the circumstances surrounding the death of government science advisor Dr David Kelly in 2003 and Britain’s involvement in the war in Iraq.

Buttercup

I put a buttercup under my chin & yellow vans go past - some say RENEW GLASS, others SASH WINDOWS. USB cables & leads run through my copy of Sophocles - Oedipus : this is a sign, the pact seals my fate.

Haunted Loaf

She woke me from a pollen sleep to tell me it would be a day of peace. These hardships, spoke the sun, give us another chance : the first bionic sea-creature only made the news

Lemon Blue

We grabbed the handles of the shimmering zimmer of chance - someone offered a box of matches called LEMON BLUE from the stall that sold flint wheels attached to plastic steps ridged to a range of coloured cylinders of gas. I cursed

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