David Morley

Recent and Forthcoming Selected Events

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 Turor with Deryn Rees-Jones, Poetry course for the Arvon Foundation at Lumb Bank, 30th July- 4th August 2012.  

Festival Masterclass: sTanza Poetry Festival, 11.15 a.m. Sunday 18th March 2012, Town Hall, St Andrews.

Poetry Reading:
sTanza Poetry Festival, 5 p.m., Saturday 17th March 2012, Parliament Hall, St Andrews.

Poetry Reading: ‘Birds, Romani and Poetry’, 12 p.m., 19th November, Helpston Church as part of the
New Networks for Nature symposium.
  


Poetry Reading: Poetry Book Society Benefit, Martin Harris Centre for Music and Drama, Manchester. Participants include: Simon Armitage, Sean O’Brien, W.N. Herbert, Vona Groarke, John McAuliffe, Jacob Polley, Paul Farley, David Morley, Jean Sprackland, Julian Turner, Rommi Smith, David Wheatley, Michael Symmons Roberts, and Helen Mort. The Manchester PBS benefit is a collaboration between the PBS, the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester, The Writing School at MMU and the Centre for New Writing at The University of Manchester. To book please call the Box Office on 0161 275 8951.   


David Morley: Poetry Workshop for Times Cheltenham Festival of Literature, Montpellier Chptr (Hotel) Sunday, October 16, 2011 - 10:00, £25, members - 10% discount.  


‘An Evening with David Morley’: Reading and Discussion, Warwick Words Festival, 6th October 2011, 7.30 pm, Lord Leycester Hospital, Warwick. Tickets available from Festival Box Office 01926 776438. 
 


David Morley: Poetry Reading and Discussion, Poets Corner, hosted by Monash University, Melbourne, 3pm 5th September 2011.. 
 


David Morley: Poetry Reading: Melbourne Writers' Festival, Australia, 4th September 2011, ACMI The Cube ‘The Morning Read’


David Morley: Poetry Workshop for Melbourne Writers’ Festival, 3rd September 2011, Wheeler Centre, Little Lonsdale Street, 10am-4pm


David Morley: Poetry Workshop on 'Poetry Environments' for Norwich Writers Centre


David Morley: 'Natural Magic': Week-long residential course on poetry with Colette Bryce, Arvon Foundation at Totleigh Barton, 30th May-4th June 2011


Tower Poetry Awards on 9th May 2011, London. Judge.
 
The Woodstock Bookshop and Tower Poetry are organising an evening of poetry in Woodstock on Thursday 7 April 2011 in The Woodstock Arms at 7pm when David Morley and Peter McDonald will be reading from recent works. This is a rare opportunity to hear two of our very best poets reading together. Tickets £4 (students free) MUST be booked in advance from The Woodstock Bookshop: 01993 812760 or info@woodstockbookshop.co.uk  


David Morley: "The Invisible Birds: A Reading with Birdsong" at The Conference of Birds at Essex Book Festival, The University of Essex, 4.40 p.m. 12th March 2011


David Morley: Poetry Reading and Workshop, Shewsbury School, 7th March 2011


David Morley: Launch of "Enchantment", The Studio, Millburn House, Warwick University, 8.00 p.m. 19th January 2011


David Morley: Poetry Reading, Buzzwords, Exmouth Arms, Bath Road, Cheltenham, 7.00 p.m. Sunday 5th December 2010


Poetry Reading, Long Poem Magazine Fundraiser, Drink, Shop & Do, cafe/bar on Caledonian Road just around the corner from Kings Cross, London, from 2.00 p.m. (DM opens proceedings), Sunday 5th December 2010


Poetry Reading, Nine Arches Press event, 7 p.m. Jam Cafe, Heathcote Street, Nottingham, Sunday 21st November, 2010


Discussion on science and literature: Birmingham Readers and Writers Festival, 1.00 p.m., Saturday 20th November, 2010


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


David Morley: Poetry Reading, 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, or 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.