David Morley

Recent and Forthcoming Events and Appearances

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Poetry Reading: Melbourne International Writers' Festival, Australia, late September 2011

Week-long course on poetry, Arvon Foundation at Totleigh Barton, 30th May-4th July 2011 David Morley: Launch of “Enchantment”, London, 29th November 2010 Workshop: Warwick Words Festival, 1st October 2010

Week-long course with Alison McLeod, Starting to Write, Arvon Foundation at Lumb Bank, 30 August to 4 September 2010

Poetry Reading, Stand Up Poetry Reading Series at the Duncan Room, Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institute, 16-18 Queen Square, Bath, June 10th 2010


David Morley: 'Poetry and the Envrionment', British Council HQ, London, Friday 4th June 2010

Tutor: Ecopoetry Writing Day, Llangollen, 16 May 2010.Plas Newydd.

David Morley. Poetry Reading, Arts Bar, Wokingham, 8 April 2010


David Morley. Book Launch. Launch of, and readings from, David's latest anthology of up and coming poets, Dove Release: New Flights and Voices (Worple Press, 2010). With guest stars: Peter Blegvad, Glyn Maxwell, Jane Holland and Luke Kennard and many more taking the floor. The Studio, Capital Centre, Millburn House, Warwick University. 18 March 2010


David Morley. Poetry Reading. Reading and Workshop, The Seamus Heaney Centre, Queens University, Belfast, 25-26 February 2010


David Morley on Poems on the Underground to celebrate 350 years of Royal Society, London tube network, February to August 2010


David Morley. Poetry Reading and talk, Shakespeare Winter School, Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, Stratford Upon Avon, 14 January 2010


David Morley. Poetry Reading, De Montfort University, 7th November, 2009


David Morley. Poetry Reading, "The Night of the Day" launch, Buzzwords, Cheltenham, 6th December, 2009


David Morley. Poetry Reading, "The Night of the Day"`launch, The Bell, Aldgate, London, 29th November, 2009


David Morley. Poetry Reading and Templar Poetry Winner book launches, Derwent Poetry Festival, Matlock, 14-15 November, 2009


David Morley. Poetry Reading from "The Night of the Day" launch, Wilde's, Leamington Spa, 16 November 2009

David Morley. Poetry Reading, Winchester College, 12 November 2009

David Morley. Aldeburgh Poetry Festival, Reading and Talks, 7-8 November 2009

David Morley. Aldeburgh Poetry Festival, All Day Workshop, 6 November 2009

David Morley. Birmingham Book Festival Event, 15 October 2009

David Morley. Workshop, Times Cheltenham Festival of Literature, 12 October 2009

David Morley: Birmingham Book Festival Event, 8 October 2009

David Morley: Nine Arches Press Event, Warwick Words Festival, Warwick 4 October 2009

David Morley: The Wolf launch, Poetry Society Studio Reading, 5 August 2009

Tutor: Arvon Foundation Starting to Write, The Hurst, July 2009

David Morley. Poetry Reading for Romany Theatre Company, Totleigh Bartion, 11th June 2009

David Morley. Interview with Kirsty Lang, "Front Row", BBC Radio 4, 23rd January 2009

David Morley. Poetry Reading, De Montfort University, 10th December 2008

David Morley. Poetry Reading, Lancaster LitFest, 1st November 2008

David Morley. Public Art. 'Slow Art Trail', new public art poems by David Morley unveiled, Strid Wood, Bolton Abbey, North Yorkshire, late September 2008

David Morley. Poetry Reading. Bristol Poetry Festival, 11 September 2008, with Lavinia Greenlaw

David Morley. Poetry Reading, Tower Poetry, Christ Church College, Oxford, 27th August 2008

David Morley. Poetry Reading, Ledbury Poetry Festival, Sunday 13th July 2008, with Marina Warner

David Morley. Poetry Reading, Stratford on Avon Poetry Festival, Thursday 10th July 2008, with Fiona Sampson, Shakespeare Centre

Tutor and reader: Compton Verney, Warwickshire, 'Fabric of Myth' Poetry Workshop, Saturday 5th July, 3-5 p.m.

David Morley: PencilFest, National Student Writing Festival, Warwick, Sunday 11th May 2008

David Morley: Writing and Healthcare’, invited lecture, Kings College London Literature and Medicine Series, 7th May 2008

 Reading and Talk: The Troubador Café, Reading and debate on‘The State of British Poetry’ with Fiona Sampson, Alan Brownjohn and Naomi Jaffa,  London, 28th April 2008.

Tutor: Stones Barn, Cumbria, Poetry School event, 4-6th April 2008

Tutor: Arvon at Totleigh Barton, 17-22 March 2008

David Morley: Oxfam Poetry Event, Marylebone High Street, London, 6.45 p.m., 6th December, 2007

David Morley: Warwick Arts Centre, with Zoe Brigley, 7.15pm, Wednesday 21st November 2007

David Morley: Warwick Words Festival, Warwick, 2 pm, Saturday 6th October 2007

David Morley reading on The Verb, Radio 3, Saturday 22nd September 2007

The Poetry Society Studio, 22 Betterton Street, London,  22nd September 2007  Reading for ‘Devolutionary Literature’ conference, Warwick University, 18th November 2006.  ‘Creative Access: Tackling the Necessary and the Impossible’, 3rd November 2006, Kings College/Royal Holloway Forum, invited.  ‘Nothing, Something and Everything: A Lecture and Workshop for Samuel Beckett’s Centenary’, keynote address as part of Samuel Beckett Centenary Conference: Scuola Holden, Torino, Italy, 14th June 2006.  ‘Science and Poetry’, invited lecture for The Cambridge Year of Literature Festival Lecture, Magdalene College, Cambridge, 8th November 2005  ‘The Tribe of Paul: Muldoon’s Imitators’ invited paper, Paul Muldoon Conference, University of Leeds, 17th September 2005.  University of Umea, Sweden, opening reading and guest lecture for the first Roma Self-Writing Conference, 20th May 2005.  University of Arizona, invited readings and workshops for ‘Desert Nights, Rising Stars’ Conference, March 2005.  City University and Hong Kong University, Hong Kong; The British Council, Hong Kong; and Guangzhou University, China: lectures on creative writing and mass writing workshops, Easter 2001, sponsored tour by The British Council.