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The Country of Perhaps
This is a book of poems with a specific aim: to analyze the power of illusion. It shows how the power of illusion is generated not from cultural forces but from the demands of individual choice in the face of implacable circumstance, and considers the Christian guarantee of salvation.
The Language of Fly-Fishing
First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Selected Poems
Featuring sonnets, sestinas, villanelles, and translations from Old English, this compilation by Dutch poet Chris McCully spans 16 years of his work. A meditation on extinction, this supple, sparing verse celebrates the fragile place in which we live as it reveals the author’s engagement with language and the poetic form. Inspired in part by Anglo Saxon elegy, this rich and unique collection touches upon themes such as civility, memory, friendship, art, and literature.
The Other Side of the Stream
The Other Side of the Stream offers a personal view of the mysteries of fly-fishing, from their beginnings in a small boy's imagination to their development in the mind of an adult. On this angling journey, Chris McCully's writing ranges from autobiography and elegy to fiction; there are friendships here, and failure -- particularly our failures to understand the environment -- and there is language, history, laughter, and the charm of a reflective ethic. The work is McCully's attempt to analyse the wisdom contained in one of the first recorded comments about angling, that it is 'principally for your solace' (from The Treatise of Fishing with an Angle). It is also his reply. Book jacket.
Beowulf
Any translation is a reading. Chris McCully reads Beowulf as an epic written in English using all the complex metrical conventions of its time, as well as distinctive epic tropes including sea-crossings, oracular pronouncements, and encounters with the monstrous. This version renders the original in readable contemporary English, but also keeps as close as it can to the older, alliterative metrical system, so that readers may experience something of the textures and formal properties of the original. An "Afterword" explains the translator's formal choices and explores the nature of this epic, with its emphasis on tribe, location and mortality. "McCully captures the special magic and power of the Beowulf poet's word-pile and life-thoughts." --Martin Duffell, Fellow of Queen Mary, University of London
Serengeti Songs
This is an illustrated collection of poems bringing Tanzania, Kenya and the African landscape alive.
The Poet's Voice and Craft
How does a poet go about writing poetry? Chris McCully, himself a poet and teacher of poetry, put this question to thirteen of Britain's most distinguished practitioners, who discuss in these informal essays the techniques of writing poetry, how they structure their writing - the choice of words, sounds (phonology), metrics (or non-metrics), and some of the processes of poetic genesis and re-writing. Each poet was sent a set of guidelines and their individual responses demonstrate the vitality - and difficulty - of 'writing poetry'. Readers interested in the languages of modern poetry will find this first-hand testimony a revelation; fellow poets will find much to stimulate reflection; those concerned with poetic trajectory will find conceptual variety; and those curious about how poems come to be written and revised will find a shrewd, acknowledged witness.
Time Signatures
Time Signatures is Chris McCully's first book of poems. It reflects his fascination - as student, scholar and theorist with the procedures of writing verse, especially with rhythmical and metrical structures. The subject-matter here is drawn from the full range of his preoccupations - fly-fishing, teaching, travel, desire and loss. The work is neither new formalist nor post-modern but rooted in the history of the language and its verse traditions.
Not Only I
When Chris McCully's first book of poems, Time Signatures (Carcanet, 1993), appeared, the Observer described the poet as 'a keen fly-fisher, a translator of Old English poetry and an expert prosodist; and 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'. McCully was, it added, 'a major poet in the making'. In Not only I, a collection of love poems, he begins to fulfil that promise. His international reputation as a linguist, philologist, writer and theorist informs the collection, from the choice of inevitable structures to the explored cultural and individual difficulties of desire and loss. In this generous - and often wry - book, a poetic talent comes to maturity and finds its achieved voice.
