J. O. Morgan

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J. O. Morgan
Born1978 (age 45–46)
Edinburgh, Scotland
OccupationPoet
Notable worksAt Maldon,
Assurances,
The Martian's Regress
Notable awards Costa Poetry Award

J. O. Morgan (born 1978) is an author from Edinburgh, Scotland. The seventh of his volumes of verse, The Martian's Regress (2020), is set in the far future, when humans "lose their humanity." [1] He has also published two novels: Pupa (2021) and Appliance (2022).

Contents

Works

Each of Morgan's seven poetry volumes is a single book-length work. His fifth, Interference Pattern, was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize [2] and his first, Natural Mechanical, won the Aldeburgh Poetry Prize in 2009. [3]

The third work, At Maldon (2014), revisits the Old English epic "The Battle of Maldon", detailing events that took place on the Essex coast in 991 CE. [4] A recording of Morgan reading it was made for the Poetry Archive in 2014. [5] He has recited the whole work from memory on several occasions.

Royal Air Force involvement in maintaining the Airborne Nuclear Deterrent in the early Cold War period forms the basis for Morgan's sixth publication, Assurances (2018). Morgan's father was in the RAF and he worked with Britain's nuclear deterrent. [6] It was shortlisted for the Forward Prize [7] and won the Costa Poetry Award, when the judges praised it as "original, compelling, ambitious, highly accomplished and marvellously sustained". [6]

Morgan's seventh volume of poetry, The Martian's Regress (2020), is set in the far future. It considers "what humans become when they lose their humanity," and explores "what a fragile environment eventually makes of those who persist in tampering with it." [1]

Publications

Poetry

Novels

Awards and recognition

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References

  1. 1 2 "The Martian's Regress". Penguin Books UK. Retrieved 1 March 2020.
  2. ↑ Field, John (16 January 2017). "The 2016 T.S. Eliot Prize".
  3. ↑ Flood, Alison (7 November 2009). "Poet arrives 'out of the blue' to take Aldeburgh first poetry collection prize". The Guardian.
  4. ↑ Parker, Keith (2015). "J O Morgan's 'At Maldon'". Poetry School. Retrieved 4 June 2018.
  5. ↑ "J. O. Morgan reads from At Maldon".
  6. 1 2 3 "BBC Radio 4 - Front Row - The Cut Out Girl by Bart van Es named Costa Book of the Year 2018". BBC. Retrieved 15 October 2023.
  7. ↑ "2018 Forward Prizes for Poetry 2018". Forward Arts Foundation. Retrieved 4 June 2018.
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