Enchantment
Enchantment

Enchantment

POETRY

96 Pages, 5.5 x 8.5

Formats: Paperback, ebook: EPUB, Mobipocket, ebook: PDF

Paperback, $15.95 (CA $17.95) (US $15.95)

Publication Date: February 2011

ISBN 9781847770622

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Overview

Exploring questions such as How does a blacksmith make fresh life from fire? Why does a creature that is half-man and half-hedgehog decide to take on the human race? and How do you ride a horse through time? this ambitious and prize-winning anthology reclaims the magical short story on behalf of the medium of poetry. Revealing a myriad of tales and charms, these poems take their imaginative energies from Romany life and lore, delving into lives lived intensely on the margins of reality and creating a language for poetry that is as entirely fresh as it is natural. Opening with a celebration of the friendship between the author and one of his late friends, this compilation enters and evokes strange new worlds, resurrecting the oral tradition of poetry as a form of magic, marvel, and making.

Reviews

“David Morley takes us on a voyage to the other half of his heritage. In a serial masterpiece of macaronic verse, he shows us a life intimate with our own . . . yet more deeply other than romantic fairytales or even authentic music from Spain and Eastern Europe had suggested it might be. He holds our world up to a language mostly kept secret up to now. . . . the refraction of the familiar is dizzying yet often moving.”  —Les Murray, author, The Biplane Houses

Author Biography

David Morley is the cofounder of the writing program in the department of English and comparative literary studies at the University of Warwick. He is a recipient of the Templar Poetry Prize, an Arts Council of England Writers Award, an Eric Gregory Award, the Raymond Williams Prize, and a Hawthornden Fellowship. He is the author of The Cambridge Introduction to Creative Writing, The Invisible Kings, and Scientific Papers. He has written for the Guardian and Poetry Review.
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