David Morley

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"Enchantment", Telegraph Book of the Year.2010

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Whitethroat
                           

Whitesmiths work the tinct tin into leaves.
                         
They could weave, if they chose, a whole whitten of it.
 
                          
It would glitter, that false wayfarer’s tree,
                          
as the whitethorn, or the whitethroat calling from its false leaves.


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David Morley.

David is the award-winning writer of nine books of poetry and the editor of six anthologies of new fiction and poetry. He writes criticism, essays and reviews for The Guardian and Poetry Review. His new book of poems is Enchantment from Carcanet which is a Telegraph Book of the Year 2010. 'Nightingales' was selected as Poem of the Week in the Guardian.

He recently published a new book of Romany poems The Invisible Kings, a Poetry Book Society Recommendation, and  The Cambridge Introduction to Creative Writing. David is Professor of Writing at Warwick University.