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. His next collection of poems is The Gypsy and the Poet, Carcanet Press, 2013. David's New and Selected Poems will be published by Carcanet in 2014.

He writes criticism, essays and reviews for The Guardian and Poetry Review. A recent book of poems Enchantment from Carcanet was a Telegraph Book of the Year while 
The Invisible Kings was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. The Cambridge Introduction to Creative Writing is a bestseller worldwide.  David is Professor of Writing at Warwick University and a judge of the 2012 T.S.Eliot Prize.