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Dedalus: Unlimited Edition

Chris McCabe

Friday 17th June 1904. Stephen Dedalus wakes up in a Dublin Martello tower, hungover but with winnings in the pocket of his borrowed trousers. Dedalus goes about his day. Settling scores and debts. Pursued by the ghosts of his mother, Hamlet, and now a man called Leopold Bloom who has woken up with plans for him. The young poet weaves hopes and ideas into burning wings of ambition. Can he elude death in the passages of books?


McCabe's iconoclastic tribute to James Joyce's masterpiece gives right-of-reply to his self-portrait, Stephen Dedalus. Stephen and Bloom, cut from Joyce's ego, become cultural types pasted into Digital Age storytelling.


Book Details

  • Publisher: Henningham Family Press
  • Publish Date: Dec 9th, 2022
  • Pages: 258
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - 0002
  • Dimensions: 7.40in - 5.12in - 0.58in - 0.59lb
  • EAN: 9781916218680
  • Categories: LiteraryWorld Literature - Ireland - General

About the Author

McCabe, Chris: - Chris McCabe is the author of five poetry collections, most recently The Triumph of Cancer (Penned in the Margins). Pharmapoetica, with Maria Vlotides, was shortlisted for The Ted Hughes Award and his plays Shad Thames, Broken Wharf and Mudflats have been performed in Liverpool and London. His non-fiction series, searching for a great lost poet in one of London's Magnificent Seven cemeteries, begins with In the Catacombs (selected as an LRB Bookshop book of the year) and Cenotaph South: Mapping the Lost Poets of Nunhead Cemetery. He co-edited, with Victoria Bean, The New Concrete: Visual Poetry in the 21st Century (Hayward Publishing, 2015). Dedalus (Henningham Family Press) was LRB Bookshop Book of the Week and shortlisted for The Republic of Consciousness Prize 2019. The anthology Poems From The Edge of Extinction (Chambers, 2019) was Gold Medal Winner for Poetry and Special Honours Award for Best of Anthology at the 2020 Nautilus Book Awards.

Praise for this book

"Parts of this book will remain with me, and pollute my reading of Hamlet and Ulysses, forever. I also add it to my personal library of Great Books About Dead Fathers." - Max Porter: Author of Grief is the Thing with Feathers


"McCabe's invention never flags." - David Collard, Literary Review


"McCabe has a poet's ear for Joyce's prose style and the literary chops to square up to the daunting original; the result is Ulysses accelerated, improved and reduced." - Republic of Consciousness Prize 2019 Judges.