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A Summer Among The Dead Poets Of West Norwood Cemetery
Penned in the Margins
June 2014
On Sale: June 9, 2014
150 pages
ISBN: 1908058196
EAN: 9781908058195
Hardcover
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Fiction Poetry
Opened in 1837 and inspired by the Pere Lachaise in Paris,
West Norwood became known as the Millionaire's Cemetery. But
within its opulent grounds there are twelve buried names
whose currency is language: these are the dead poets of West
Norwood. In the first instalment of a project to map the
Magnificent Seven, Chris McCabe takes us off the main track
of London writing and asks why the works of Hopkins,
Tennyson and Browning are still read above those buried in
this suburban enclave of South London. Join McCabe on the
hunt for a great lost poet, as he walks the winding Gothic
paths of the Cemetery and makes an unexpected discovery
underground in the catacombs. The stories of those loved and
dismissed by Charles Dickens are carefully uncovered; those
who influenced Lewis Carroll and Winston Churchill; and
those whose burial in the common ground has not been enough
to silence them. A startling and original work of literary
detection, In the Catacombs is written across a range of
forms - prose, Gothic fiction, criticism and poetry - and
places West Norwood Cemetery and its dead poets back into
the foreground of the London psyche.
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