Mapping the Lost Poets of Nunhead Cemetery.
This is the second in a series of poetic investigations into the inhabitants of London's great Victorian cemetries, following on from the brilliant In the Catacombs: A Summer Among the Dead Poets of West Norwood Cemetery. Join McCabe as he puts an ear to the earth for voices forgotten by the literary cannon. Travel back in time through south-east London - along its underground rivers, through the halls of its asylums - as McCabe discovers the intense poetic activity of an area that encountered Robert Browning, Barry MacSweeney and Charlotte Mew and explores the childhood playground of William Blake.
This is the second in a series of poetic investigations into the inhabitants of London's great Victorian cemetries, following on from the brilliant In the Catacombs: A Summer Among the Dead Poets of West Norwood Cemetery. Join McCabe as he puts an ear to the earth for voices forgotten by the literary cannon. Travel back in time through south-east London - along its underground rivers, through the halls of its asylums - as McCabe discovers the intense poetic activity of an area that encountered Robert Browning, Barry MacSweeney and Charlotte Mew and explores the childhood playground of William Blake.