Maurice Scully: Humming
Published October 2009
Paperback, 100pp, 8.5x5.5ins, £8.95 / $15
ISBN 9781848610514
Humming is Maurice Scully's first full-length book of new work since the Things That Happen project (1981–2006). Dedicated to the poet's late brother, it places human life in the larger frame of history and pre-history, of a world in drifts of pollen, and other life possibilities over large stretches of time in which the poetry can score its pollen-like trace knowing
"how to wait
what to expect"
"The poet is not pushed forward as a surrogate hero, an ideal fictionalised
presence in whose identity we lose ourselves: he is, always, just (just!)
a person making. We are offered a poetry of witness, not of personality and
career-accomplishment. We find ourselves watching what's happening,
as it happens, with little concern for personal achievement. What can be
constructed upon an event is not the point: the point is, very differently,
what seeming non-events provide … The poems don't promote a
line of their own so much as transform the space around them."
—JCC Mays on the launch of Doing the Same in English (2008)
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