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.
Welcome to the website for the writer 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, PN Review and Poetry Review.
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 Director
of the Warwick Writing Programme at The University of Warwick where he is Professor of Writing and Director of the Warwick
Prize for Writing.
