David Morley

David Morley’s poetry has won fourteen writing awards. He recently published The Invisible Gift: Selected Poems (Carcanet 2015). The Gypsy and the Poet (Carcanet 2013) was a PBS Recommendation and Morning Star Book of the Year. Enchantment (Carcanet 2011) was a Sunday Telegraph Book of the Year. The Invisible Kings (Carcanet 2007) was a TLS Book of the Year and PBS 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. His ‘writing challenges’ pod-casts are among the most popular literature downloads on iTunes worldwide: two episodes are now preloaded on to all demo Macs used in Apple Stores across the globe. He writes for The Guardian and Poetry Review. A leading international advocate of creative writing David wrote The Cambridge Introduction to Creative Writing (2007) which has been translated into many languages, and recently co-edited The Cambridge Companion to Creative Writing (2012). He teaches at the University of Warwick where is Professor of Writing and Director of the world-renowned Warwick Writing Programme. He is also adjunct Professor at Monash University, Melbourne. David has won two major awards for his teaching including a National Teaching Fellowship