The Magic of What's There

Overview

In his bold new collection, David Morley, winner of the Ted Hughes Award, casts off the worlds of myth and magical fable to focus on the fiercely personal. "Love teaches you how to mind / And how to mend", he writes in "After a Song by Gustav Mahler". In The Magic of What's There Morley uses his eye for precise detail and his linguistic invention to explore childhood suffering and, in counterbalance, the joys of love, friendship and parenthood.

Reviews

"A rare and beautiful book." —The Guardian on The Invisible Kings (2007)

"Enchantment by David Morley is a linguistic feast." —Jonathan Bate, Sunday Telegraph Books Of The Year 2010 on Enchantment

"Like opening a box of fireworks, something theatrical happens when you open its pages . . .Ted Hughes wrote about the natural magical and mythical world; The Invisible Gift is a netural successor." —Ted Hughes Award Judges on The Invisible Gift

Author Biography

David Morley won the Ted Hughes Award for New Poetry in 2016 for The Invisible Gift: Selected Poems and a Cholmondeley Award for his contribution to poetry. His collections include The Gypsy and the Poet, a PBS Recommendation and Morning Star Book of the Year; Enchantment, a Sunday Telegraph Book of the Year; The Invisible Kings, a PBS Recommendation and TLS Book of the Year.