Professor David Morley FRSL

Teaching Focus: Poetry

National Teaching Fellow

School of Creative Arts, Performance and Visual Cultures

Office Hours: On study leave 2023-24

Professor David Morley teaches poetry in the Warwick Writing Programme. He is a winner of a National Teaching Fellowship and a Warwick Award for Teaching Excellence. His books include Fury, a Poetry Book Society Choice and shortlisted for The Forward Prize for Best Collection, The Magic of What’s There, The Gypsy and the Poet, Enchantment and The Invisible Kings. David wrote the bestselling The Cambridge Introduction to Creative Writing. He also pioneered podcasting in creative writing through his Slow Poetry and Writing Challenges projects. He won the Ted Hughes Award for The Invisible Gift: Selected Poems, and is a Fellow of The Royal Society of Literature and Fellow of The English Association. He has supervised many successful doctoral students and welcomes new proposals for PhDs in poetic practice.

Awards

National Teaching Fellowship
Warwick Award for Teaching Excellence
Ted Hughes Award for New Poetry
Forward Prize Poetry Finalist
Cholmondeley Award for Poetry
Gregory Award for Poetry

Associations/Memberships

Fellow of The Royal Society of Literature
Fellow of The English Association
Senior Fellow of Higher Education Academy

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FURY
The Invisible Gift: Selected Poems
The Magic of What’s There
The Gypsy and the Poet
Enchantment
The Rose of the Moon
The Night of the Day
The Invisible Kings
Scientific Papers
The Gift: New Writing for the NHS
The Cambridge Introduction to Creative Writing
The Cambridge Companion to Creative Writing

Undergraduate Teaching

Modes of Writing

The Practice of Poetry

Personal Writing Project

Postgraduate

PhD supervision available for poetic practice

MA Writing Poetry