David Morley

It is a privilege to see Passion acknowledged by @johnclegg37.bsky.social in the @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk this week. His choice of ‘The Shyness of the Crown’ as poem of the year (so far!) is genuinely appreciated. Thank you, John and @lrb.co.uk! www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/booklists/jo...

YouTube video by Carcanet Press Meet the Author: David Morley Discusses Passion

A short bird-interrupted film about why passion has a place in poetry.
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Passion: David Morley Beethoven’s Yellowhammer by David Morley

‘The baby names for birds—jumplings, pufflings, eaglets, owlets, eyas. The dialect spill of names for long-tailed tits— Prinpriddle, Ragamuffin, Billy-featherpoke, Puddneypoke, Bellringer, Nimble Tailor, French Pie, and Miller’s Thumb.’ open.substack.com/pub/carcanet...

Passion joins his new friend FURY @carcanet.bsky.social

Passion by David Morley: Carcanet Online Book Launch - Carcanet Press Please join us to celebrate the launch of Passion by David Morley. The reading will be hosted by Sinéad Morrissey. The event will feature readings and

Join us to celebrate the launch of my new book Passion, hosted by Sinéad Morrissey. The event will include readings, a lively discussion, and a Q&A with the audience. And yes—I promise flocks of birds. bit.ly/3FVsVU2

This Sat at St Hilda’s Oxford: join me & Steve Ely for a free reading & talk on writing & the climate emergency, plus local eco-poetry. All welcome. Details: www.st-hildas.ox.ac.uk/events/writi...

What if God were Salieri to Nature's Mozart?

Thank you!

I.M. Michael Longley
All the wild flowers of the Burren
to you: thyme, valerian, loosestrife,
Meadowsweet, tway blade, crowfoot, ling, angelica,
Herb robert, marjoram, cow parsley, sundew, vetch,
Mountain avens, wood sage, ragged robin, stitchwort,
Yarrow, lady’s bedstraw, bindweed, bog pimpernel.

I have loved your Moth Oscars. I've been bed bound with illness and these images have been such a curated joy. Thank you.

Night Heron. Nice.

And anaphora.

Brilliant brilliant finish.

George Szirtes has been awarded the King’s Gold Medal for Poetry. A poet of exceptional grace and depth, he has enriched our art with inventive brilliance, political insight, and a fearless command of language. Well done, George. A truly noble achievement.

Delete 'an act of' which implies performance. Delete the final two words: this is implicit.

Writing is rewriting.
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Their tears, Luke, are barely dry on the script they are following.

But what does the apple think?

My pantoum in homage to ‘A Nocturnal upon St. Lucy's Day’ (13 Dec.) by John Donne

'Tis the year's midnight, and it is the day's…

As Cavafy knew, tyrants should beware the footsteps of the furies: www.onassis.org/initiatives/...

Appalling. Stop.

The price is a follow, Boll.

Glad am I to find my beloved Bollard Association on this stage. Not be confused with the Lollard Associations of the late 1370s and early 1380s.

David Morley · From ‘Seven Women Scientists’

My new poems about women scientists in The London Review of Books www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Next Wednesday, 7-8 pm. It wold be a great pleasure to have you there!

Greenfinch in the church yard yew tree @rspb.bsky.social @omsystmktm.bsky.social

A graphic with an orange background, a picture of the cover of Revelation Freshly Erupting by Nelly Sachs, translated by Andrew Shanks, and the Carcanet logo. Text reads: Winner, Warwick Prize for Women in Translation 2024, Revelation Freshly Erupting, Nelley Sachs, tr. Andrew Shanks.

Congratulations to Andrew Shanks, who has won the 2024 Warwick Prize for Women in Translation (@womenintranslation.bsky.social) with Revelation Freshly Erupting by Nelly Sachs!

Well done Andrew! 🎉
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‘Revelation Freshly Erupting’ by Nobel Prize winner Nelly Sachs, translated by Andrew Shanks has won 2024 The Warwick Prize for Women in Translation. The prize launched in 2017 with the aim of addressing the gender imbalance in translated literature. warwick.ac.uk/newsandevent...

Early winter berry palette, for the possible dopamine it might trigger in your brain. The colour of spindle berries (bottom rightish) never seems quite real...

The Whimbrel in the tree!

Thank you for compiling this excellent list. Can you please add me? There is a 'davidmorley' but I don't know him, not yet anyway.