Description
In his bold new collection, David Morley, winner of the Ted Hughes Award, casts off the worlds of myth and magical fable to focus on the fiercely personal. `Love teaches you how to mind / And how to mend', he writes in `After a Song by Gustav Mahler'. In The Magic of What's There Morley uses his eye for precise detail and his linguistic invention to explore childhood suffering and, in counterbalance, the joys of love, friendship and parenthood. He finds the elements of epic in the everyday, navigating the complex connections between past and present selves. His poems acknowledge our capacity for cruelty, but also for love, tenderness and mercy.
Morley, the celebrated director of the Writing Programme at Warwick University, is a multi-award-winning writer, anthologist and critic; Known for writing about myth and fable, Morley reinvents his poetic with a formally rich, thematically challenging and emotionally charged collection; Lays bare our capacity for cruelty but also for love, tenderness and mercy; Finds the epic and remarkable in the everyday, touching on love, friendship and parenthood; Navigates the complex relationship between past and present selves, fact and fiction.
About the Author
David Morley won the Ted Hughes Award for New Poetry in 2016 for The Invisible Gift: Selected Poems and a Cholmondeley Award for his contribution to poetry. His collections include The Gypsy and the Poet, a pbs Recommendation and Morning Star Book of the Year; Enchantment, a Sunday Telegraph Book of the Year; The Invisible Kings, a pbs Recommendation and tls Book of the Year. A dramatic long poem, The Death of Wisdom Smith, Prince of Gypsies, has been published by The Melos Press. He is Professor at Warwick University and Monash University, Melbourne.
Reviews
'T'he strange atmospherics suffuse every page while the balance struck between mystery and disclosure can be breathtaking...Such moments led me to feel that Morley had not so much created a new universe as uncovered one. Any universe is bound together by language; and Morley brings Romany vocabulary fizzing and crackling into our consciousness' - Tim Liardet, Guardian; `Like opening a box of fireworks, something theatrical happens when you open its pages ... Ted Hughes wrote about the natural magical and mythical world; The Invisible Gift is a natural successor.' - Ali Smith, Andrew McMillan & Jackie Kay, Ted Hughes Award judges.
Book Information
ISBN 9781784104948
Author David Morley
Format Paperback
Page Count 88
Imprint Carcanet Press Ltd
Publisher Carcanet Press Ltd
Morley, the celebrated director of the Writing Programme at Warwick University, is a multi-award-winning writer, anthologist and critic; Known for writing about myth and fable, Morley reinvents his poetic with a formally rich, thematically challenging and emotionally charged collection; Lays bare our capacity for cruelty but also for love, tenderness and mercy; Finds the epic and remarkable in the everyday, touching on love, friendship and parenthood; Navigates the complex relationship between past and present selves, fact and fiction.
About the Author
David Morley won the Ted Hughes Award for New Poetry in 2016 for The Invisible Gift: Selected Poems and a Cholmondeley Award for his contribution to poetry. His collections include The Gypsy and the Poet, a pbs Recommendation and Morning Star Book of the Year; Enchantment, a Sunday Telegraph Book of the Year; The Invisible Kings, a pbs Recommendation and tls Book of the Year. A dramatic long poem, The Death of Wisdom Smith, Prince of Gypsies, has been published by The Melos Press. He is Professor at Warwick University and Monash University, Melbourne.
Reviews
'T'he strange atmospherics suffuse every page while the balance struck between mystery and disclosure can be breathtaking...Such moments led me to feel that Morley had not so much created a new universe as uncovered one. Any universe is bound together by language; and Morley brings Romany vocabulary fizzing and crackling into our consciousness' - Tim Liardet, Guardian; `Like opening a box of fireworks, something theatrical happens when you open its pages ... Ted Hughes wrote about the natural magical and mythical world; The Invisible Gift is a natural successor.' - Ali Smith, Andrew McMillan & Jackie Kay, Ted Hughes Award judges.
Book Information
ISBN 9781784104948
Author David Morley
Format Paperback
Page Count 88
Imprint Carcanet Press Ltd
Publisher Carcanet Press Ltd
