The Invisible Gift: Selected Poems

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Over the past twenty-five years, the award-winning writer David Morley has become known as one of Britain's most original poets. Renowned for his energy and linguistic inventiveness, Morley is a master storyteller, whose poems uncover 'universes bound together by language' (Guardian). From Romani tales to sharply observed lyrics about nature, from political allegory to vividly imagined histories, his poetry evokes the enchantment and truth of the natural world and our place in it. In the words of Les Murray, 'He holds our world up to a language mostly kept secret; the refraction of the familiar is dizzying and often moving'.

David Morley has published four previous Carcanet poetry collections and wrote the bestselling Cambridge Introduction to Creative Writing. Enchantment (2010) was a Sunday Telegraph Book of the Year. The Invisible Kings (2007) was a PBS Recommendation and TLS Book of the Year, chosen by Les Murray. He regularly reviews for the Guardian and is a popular performer at international poetry festivals. He teaches at Warwick University.