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Selected Poems

Selected Poems

by Chris Mc Cully (Author)

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    Paperback 2011

    $11.33
Synopsis

Chris McCully's Selected Poems includes work from 1993 to 2009, a representative selection which reveals his engagement with the precise crafts of language and poetic form. The book opens with the prose-poem 'Dust' from his 2009 collection Polder, a meditation on extinction: 'dust again the voices of the pages and the voices of the lovers'. Other voices follow, conversations in which civility, memories of friendship, art and literature respond to the desolation of dust, asserting what imagination can create from it. In translations from Old English, sonnets, villanelles and ballads, McCully's supple, sparing verse celebrates the fragile place in which we live, 'between space and space - / and both are dark'.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 180
 Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd
Published: 24 Mar 2011
ISBN 10: 1847770185
ISBN 13: 9781847770189

Media Reviews
A keen fly-fisher, a translator of Old English poetry, and an expert prosodist . . . these skills have miraculously combined so that almost every poem alights on the surface of the reader's mind with absolute integrity, judgment, and profound allure. Observer
Author Bio
CHRIS McCULLY was born in Bradford and now lives and works in the Netherlands, where he writes poems, textbooks and works on fly-fishing and gives freelance courses on aspects of using the English language. For many years he was a full-time academic in the UK, and he remains chairman and co-director of the Modern Literary Archives programme at the John Rylands University Library in Manchester. Chris McCully travels widely, making up to a dozen overseas trips a year in order to write features for the fly-fishing press in the UK and Netherlands.