Beowulf by Chris McCully Will Harris It might as well be

It might as well be Helen smouldering on the great pyre of defeat

his fourth collection

Girling (Fitzcarraldo)

Robin Robertson's The Long Take is a work of thrilling originality

alongside four short Ovid versions

Beowulf by Chris McCully Will Harris It might as well beBeowulf the earliest surviving English epic was written down at some point between the eighth and the early eleventh centuries. The poems authors are unknown. It has many times been translated, recently and notably by Seamus Heaney. 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