David Morley (poet)

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David Morley
Occupation Poet, editor, academic
NationalityBritish
Period1989 – present

David Morley FRSL is a British poet, professor, and ecologist. His best-selling textbook The Cambridge Introduction to Creative Writing has been translated into many languages. His major poetry collections include FURY, [1] Scientific Papers, The Invisible Kings, Enchantment, The Gypsy and the Poet, and The Magic of What's There are published by Carcanet Press. [2] The Invisible Gift: Selected Poems was published by Carcanet and won The Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry. He was awarded a Cholmondeley Award by The Society of Authors for his body of work and contribution to poetry. He is a Fellow of The Royal Society of Literature. FURY published in August 2020 was a Poetry Book Society Choice and shortlisted for The Forward Prize for Best Collection. Passion is published by Carcanet Press in 2025.

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Morley read Zoology at Bristol University, gaining a fellowship from the Freshwater Biological Association. He then conducted research on acid rain. Before his appointment as a Fellow at Warwick University, David Morley directed the National Association of Writers in Education. He was elected deputy chair of The Poetry Society (UK) and co-founded The Poetry Cafe in Covent Garden. He co-edited a bestselling anthology The New Poetry for Bloodaxe Books (1993) and edited the British and Irish poetry list for Arc Publications for ten years. Morley became Literature Officer for Kirklees in Yorkshire, directing the 1995 World Poetry Festival and 1995 Small Press Festival.

In 1996 he was appointed Arts Council Fellow in Writing at the University of Warwick. He has served as Director of the Warwick Writing Programme. [3] The University of Warwick awarded him a personal Chair in 2007, and a D.Litt in 2008. [4] He was elected a Fellow of The English Association in 2012.

Morley has received a number of literary awards including the 2015 Ted Hughes Award for New Poetry, a Cholmondeley Award, a major Eric Gregory Award, the Tyrone Guthrie Award, a Hawthornden International Writers Fellowship, an Arts Council Writers Award, the Raymond Williams Prize, an Arts Council Fellowship in Writing at Warwick University. [5] He has also received two awards for his teaching, including a National Teaching Fellowship. He has been a guest on a number of BBC broadcast programmes including Front Row, The Verb, Open Book and The Late Show, as well as cultural programmes in the US, Canada, and Australia. His collections of poetry The Invisible Kings and The Gypsy and the Poet were Poetry Book Society Recommendations; and FURY a Poetry Book Society Choice. [2] He has written criticism, essays and reviews for newspapers and magazines including The Guardian , Poetry Review and The Times Higher Education Supplement . [6] He was a judge of the 2012 T.S. Eliot Prize and of the 2013 Foyle Young Poets Prize. He was Head of the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies at Warwick University and is now Professor. He also holds the Alliance Chair of Writing at Monash University, Melbourne. In 2018 he was elected a Fellow of The Royal Society of Literature.

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References

  1. ↑ "Putèka to Poetry: Review of David Morley's Sixth Collection Fury by Jo Clement". Travellers Times. Retrieved 3 April 2022.
  2. 1 2 David Morley's The Invisible Kings at Carcanet Press
  3. ↑ Website for the writer David Morley
  4. ↑ University of Warwick Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies
  5. ↑ David Morley biography at Carcanet Press
  6. ↑ website for the writer David Morley
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