Chris McCully has been writing, publishing and fishing for many years. On his 65th birthday he retired from academic and professional life. Although occasional shorter pieces of work will continue to appear, what were probably his last single-authored book-length projects were published in 2022-23 and these span his interests in poetry and linguistic/cultural history; in angling and ecology; in lexicography; in theories of place and belonging. Retirement has now taken him back to Yorkshire and (he hopes) to a quieter life where he can fish more, read and reflect more, play the piano more and continue to bring on his dog(s) - and another garden, the last of those he's designed and implemented over the years.

Chris's work spans writing of different kinds (poems, translations, prose both academic and creative). This site offers comments on that together with some analysis of angling and related topics, haphazard accounts of and untrustworthy notes on angling days as they happen, some photographs, a list of Chris's major publications and a page of links. There's also some downloadable content here too, in the form of blog entries or drafts of essays.

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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, e.g. 'Text: Chris McCully, 2023', 'Photo: Richard Faulks 2022' and so on. 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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