McCully Selected Poems

Chris McCully
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-84777-807-9
Verlag: Carcanet Poetry
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 116 Seiten

Chris McCully's Selected Poems includes work from 1993 to 2009, a representative selection which reveals his precise craft 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 can be created out of it. In translations from Old English, sonnets, villanelles and ballads, McCully's supple, sparing verse celebrates the fragile areas in which we live, 'between space and space - / and both are dark'.

Chris McCully was born in Bradford, Yorkshire in 1958. Between 1985 and 2003 he worked as a full-time academic, specialising in the history of the English language, English sound-structure, and verse-form at the University of Manchester. From 2003 to 2013 he worked part-time at universities in the Netherlands (Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam; Rijksuniversiteit, Groningen) while researching and writing a number of books. His Selected Poems appeared from Carcanet in 2012. McCully is chairman and co-director of the Modern Literary Archives programme at the John Rylands University Library, Manchester. In 2013 he relocated with his wife to Colchester and the University of Essex, where he works in the Department of Literature, Film and Theatre Studies.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mccully, Chris