Chris McCabe was born in Liverpool in 1977. He has published poems in a number of places including Poetry Salzburg Review; Shearsman and Poetry Review. His first collection 'The Hutton Inquiry' was published by Salt Publishing, Cambridge, in 2005. This includes a sequence of poems that chronicle the circumstances surrounding the death of government science adviser Dr David Kelly in 2003 and Britain's involvement in the war in Iraq.

He has read his work at the Cambridge Conference of Contemporary Poetry and in the Crossing the Line Series at the Poetry Café. He also discussed and read some of his poetry on BBC World Service on Armistice Day 2005 and featured a poem on the Oxfam CD Lifelines. He currently works as Assistant Librarian at the Poetry Library, London.'


From Tongue (BUG JAR)

THE APPLE TONGUE

A to begin.

Ah: open wide for the pill.

Little ‘e’ alone at the end, a leaf

still roots its own sound

before the orchards of ‘l’.

Here comes temptation –

let us begin.