Professor David Morley FRSL

Teaching Focus: Poetry

National Teaching Fellow

Warwick Writing Programme

School of Creative Arts, Performance and Visual Cultures

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Professor David Morley teaches poetry at the Warwick Writing Programme. He is a recipient of a National Teaching Fellowship and a Warwick Award for Teaching Excellence.

His poetry collections include Passion, Fury, a Poetry Book Society Choice shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Collection, as well as The Magic of What’s There, The Gypsy and the Poet, Enchantment, The Invisible Kings, and Scientific Papers. His The Invisible Gift: Selected Poems won the Ted Hughes Award for new poetry. He also received the Cholmondeley Award from The Society of Authors for his contribution to poetry.

David has served as a judge for prestigious awards such as the T.S. Eliot Prize and the Foyle Young Poets Awards.

A pioneering voice in creative writing pedagogy, David authored the bestselling The Cambridge Introduction to Creative Writing and broke new ground with his innovative Slow Poetry and Writing Challenges podcast projects.

He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and the English Association and has supervised numerous successful doctoral candidates. David warmly welcomes new PhD proposals in poetic practice and is passionate about nurturing the next generation of poets.

Email available on application to SCAPVCenquiries@warwick.ac.uk

Awards

• National Teaching Fellowship
• Warwick Award for Teaching Excellence
• Ted Hughes Award for New Poetry
• Forward Prize Poetry Finalist
• Cholmondeley Award for Poetry
• Arts Council Writers Award
• Gregory Award for Poetry
• Poetry Book Society Choice
• Raymond Williams Prize
• Tyrone Guthrie Award

Associations/Memberships

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

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• Passion
• 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
• No Longer Poetry: New Romanian Poets
• The Cambridge Introduction to Creative Writing
• The Cambridge Companion to Creative Writing
• Clearing a Name
• The New Poetry
• A Belfast Kiss
• Mandelstam Variations
• Releasing Stone