Hedonism, by Chris McCabeJoin a carnival of characters including Bez from Happy Mondays, Jorge Louis Borges and a medieval pilgrim on a journey to buy a PlayStation, in Chris McCabe's sixth and most daring collection. Part written in Scouse dialect and invented languages, Hedonism offsets the comic with the elegiac in a haunting and polyphonic work exploring the intersection of grief, place, memory and imagination. By Chris McCabe, Head of National Poetry Library. Paperback,

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