David Morley.


David Morley is a leading British poet, critic, anthologist, editor and scientist of partly Romani extraction. He has published twenty books, including eleven collections of poetry. His work has been translated into several languages including Arabic.                                     

David read Zoology at Bristol University, gaining on graduation a fellowship from the Freshwater Biological Association. He then conducted research on acid rain. David Morley then directed the National Association of Writers in Education. He was elected deputy chair of The Poetry Society (UK) and co-founded The Poetry Cafe in Covent Garden. He co-edited a bestselling anthology The New Poetry for Bloodaxe Books (1993) and edited the British and Irish poetry list for Arc Publications for ten years.

David was Literature Officer for Kirklees in Yorkshire, directing the 1995 World Poetry Festival and 1995 National Small Press Festival. Throughout his career David has advised British governments on national arts and literature funding, and served on panels for regional and national Arts Councils in England.


In 1996 he founded the Warwick Writing Programme with Jeremy Treglown. He is currently Director of the Warwick Writing Programme and Professor of Creative Writing. The University of Warwick awarded him a personal Chair in 2007, and a D.Litt in 2008.
David has received fourteen literary awards, including a major Eric Gregory Award, a Tyrone Guthrie Award from Northern Arts, a Hawthorden International Writers Fellowship, an Arts Council Writers Award, a Creative Ambitions Award, the Raymond Williams Prize, and an Arts Council Fellowship. 
David  has also received two awards for his teaching, including a National Teaching Fellowship.
A pamphlet of new poems The Rose of the Moon was a winner of the Templar Poetry Prize 2009 judged by the distinguished poet Tim Liardet.

David Morley is the Professor of Writing at Warwick University where he is also Director of the Warwick Prize for Writing. He has been a guest on a number of broadcast programmes including Front Row, Open Book and The Late Show.

He has written criticism, essays and reviews for newspapers and magazines including The Guardian, 
 Poetry Review, PN Review and The Times Higher Education Supplement. He is currently co-editing The Cambridge Companion to Creative Writing.
He tutors for The Arvon Foundation, The Poetry School and Maddy Prior's Stones Barn courses. His latest collection of poetry, The Invisible Kingswas a Poetry Book Society Recommendation.

David is also known for his pioneering ecological poetry installations within natural landscapes and the creation of ‘slow poetry’ sculptures and I-Cast poetry films. David’s creative writing podcasts are among the most popular literature downloads on iTunes worldwide.Two episodes of his 'writing challenges' are now preloaded onto all demo macs used in Apple Stores across the world.

His forthcoming collection of poems from Carcanet will be titled Enchantment. Poems from the new book have recently been finding their way into the pages of The London Review of Books, PN Review, Poetry Review and The Wolf.

Thanks to David’s website for this biographic information ( http://www.davidmorley.org.uk )

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