Chris published his first poem under the 'Gardening' column of the Scarborough Mercury in 1975. In 1982 he began an association with Carcanet Press that has lasted until today, and has published three volumes of poems with Carcanet - Time Signatures (1993), Not Only I (1996) and The Country of Perhaps. You can find out more about these collections by typing 'poems' into the Search box above - or simply by clicking on the link 'Poetry' below.
Recently, Chris has translated some of the great Old English poems for publication in Carcanet's Fyfield Books series (2008). You're probably looking at a draft translation of an Old English riddle (photo opposite - the poem appeared as a chapter epigraph in Ad Swier's fishing title, Passion for Pike (Westerlaan, 2006)). There's also a clickable link to Chris's translations of 'The Wanderer' and 'The Seafarer' - metrical translations, incidentally - at the bottom of the Poetry page, so please keep exploring.
Details of a selection of Chris's prose work, including academic books and articles as well as 'The Word in Time' (2006-07) and Chris's literary execution of Adam Knott's 'A history of English - in three minutes' (in progress)
Chris published his first poem under the 'Gardening' column of the Scarborough Mercury in 1975. In 1982 he began an association with Carcanet Press that has lasted until today, and has published three volumes of poems with Carcanet - Time Signatures (1993), Not Only I (1996) and The Country of Perhaps. You can find out more about these collections by typing 'poems' into the Search box above - or simply by clicking on the link 'Poetry' below.
