Forgotten Ground Regained

Contributor: Chris McCully

Chris McCully is a poet and a retired professor of Old English and the history of the English language who worked at the University of Manchester and most recently, the University of Essex, specializing in the relationship between language form and poetic metre. His poetic works include Serengeti Songs (2016), a volume of Selected Poems (2011), and a translation of Beowulf (2018) which uses analogues of the Old English metrical and alliterative system as its formal basis. He won the 1992 Cædmon Prize for his poem, Cape Wrath.
His poem Cape Wrath is also the winner of the 1992 Cædmon Prize awarded by the British Historical Society Ða Engliscan Gesiðas for the best poem in the Old English style.