Overview
The formation of the Serengeti in Africa, the emergence of homo sapiens, the amazing wildlife, patterns of migration and predation are the themes of the fiercely engaged poems and photographs in this unusual book, which brings to life Tanzania and Kenya to our eyes and ears.Reviews
"McCully gets the life of words, their swing and weight, resonance and cadence. The poems spark with great lines and phrases..." —Literary ReviewAuthor Biography
Chris McCully was born in Bradford, Yorkshire in 1958. He worked as a full-time academic, specialising in the history of the English language and on English sound-structure as well as on verse and verse-form, at the University of Manchester (1985-2003) before deciding to spend more time on writing. His Selected Poems appeared from Carcanet in 2012. He remains chairman and co-director of the Modern Literary Archives program at the John Rylands University Library, Manchester.