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Welcome to Chris McCully's website. Chris's work spans poems, essays, reviews, memoirs, textbooks...and a great deal of work about angling.
Two important new books appeared in 2011: Selected Poems (Carcanet) and Outside (Two Ravens Press) Reviews of all Chris's Carcanet titles can be found on the Carcanet website. For an interview about Chris's writing and the background to Outside please visit The Two Ravens website.
A further co-edited work, Analysing Older English, appeared in December 2011 from CUP. Recent - fairly recent - other titles include The Sound Structure of English (2009), Polder (poems, 2009) and Fishing and Pike Lures (2009).
Chris has recently been (pre-)occupied with completing a major project for The Medlar Press, Nomads of the Tides: Fishing for Irish Sea-trout. This project began in 2007 and publication will be in 2013 - see Fishing projects for more details. (Follow progress on the making of Nomads.) He has also been working on the angling and other essays of Adam Knott, some of which will shortly appear in Waterlog and a selection of which appears on this website (see 'Academic and other prose'), and has occasionally troubled the English language with bits of philology, criticism, poems and translations. His most recent verse explores themes embodied in the making and structure of the Serengeti; his most recent essay is on Joseph Conrad.
For a full list of Chris's book publications please visit the following pages to view or to purchase:
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Quotes:
"Another recent Fyfield book is Chris McCully's versions of Old English poetry. McCully has combined the acuity of the scholar and the talents of a poet to produce a muscular set of translations which get as close to the sheer physicality of Old English poetry and the life portrayed there as may be possible. His Introduction is compelling: it is scholarly without being inaccessible, in tone lively and personal. He declares 'In the end I have merely tried to make the poems as attractive to readers as they are to me.' In this he surely succeeds." - (about Old English Poems and Riddles); Matt Simpson, 2008
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Note: with some minimal though important exceptions, you're free to download, share or cite anything in these pages, including photos. If you do so, however, please include an acknowledgement of the source in the new context, eg. 'Text: Chris McCully, 2012', 'Photo: James Sadler, 2011' or 'Photo: Rod Calbrade 2013'. [The image on this page is used © and by kind permission of Rod Calbrade, 2013.] Please note that otherwise-unattributed photos are invariably my own. Finally, do be aware that one or two images remain the copyright of the photographer who took the shot (or of the publishing house which retains the image) and where this is the case I have indicated it, so that no use of the relevant image is possible without obtaining written copyright permission first. Thank you.
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