Poetry Book Society Autumn 2020 Choice Shortlisted for the 2020 Forward Prize for Best Collection FURY sees the Ted Hughes Award winner David Morley once more seeking to give imaginative voice to the natural world and to those silenced or overlooked in modern society, ranging from the Romany communities of past and present Britain, to Tyson Fury and Towfiq Bihani, one of the forgotten inmates of the Guantanamo bay detention centre. In poems that bristle with linguistic energy and that celebrate poetry's power to give arresting voice to the unspoken and the untold, in ourselves and our societies, Fury is David Morley's most powerfully political work. It is a passionate testament to poetry's capacity to speak to, and for, us and our place in the world - its power to be an outreached hand, like the 'trembling hands' of the magician in 'The Thrown Voice' or the 'living hand' of the poets celebrated in 'Translations of a Stammerer'.

About the Author
David Morley is an ecologist and naturalist by background. He studied Zoology at the University of Bristol and pursued research on acid rain. His awards for poetry include the Ted Hughes Award and a Cholmondeley Award. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2018. David is a Professor of Creative Writing at Warwick University. His work in education has been awarded a National Teaching Fellowship.

Reviews
'Morley brings Romany vocabulary fizzing and crackling into our consciousness.' - Tim Liardet; 'Morley is a master of the integrity of wholes and parts.' - Dundee University Review of the Arts; 'a linguistic feast' - Jonathan Bate (On 'Enchantment')


Awards
Winner of Poetry Book Society Autumn Choice 2020. Short-listed for The Forward Prize for Best Collection 2020.



Book Information
ISBN 9781784109905
Author David Morley
Format Paperback
Page Count 96
Imprint Carcanet Press Ltd
Publisher Carcanet Press Ltd
Dimensions(mm) 216mm * 135mm * 8mm