The Invisible Gift

Over the past 25 years, 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. From Romani tales to sharply observed lyrics about nature, from political allegory to vividly imagined histories, the poetry in this collection evokes the enchantment and truth of the natural world and our place in it.

"A rare and beautiful book."  —Guardian on The Invisible Kings

"The strange atmospherics suffuse every page while the balance struck between mystery and disclosure can be breathtaking. . . . Such moments led me to feel that Morley had not so much created a new universe as uncovered one. Any universe is bound together by language, and Morley brings Romani vocabulary fizzing and crackling into our consciousness."  —Guardian on Enchantment

David Morley is an ecologist, a naturalist, a poet, and the cofounder of the writing program in the department of English and comparative literary studies at the University of Warwick. He has written for the Guardian and Poetry Review, and 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 and the poetry collections Enchantment, The Gypsy and the Poet, The Invisible Kings, and Scientific Papers.