FURY

Poetry Book Society Autumn 2020 Choice, Shortlisted for the 2020 Forward Prize for Best Collection. FURY sees the Ted Hughes Award winner David Morley once more seeking to give imaginative voice to the natural world and to those silenced or overlooked in modern society, ranging from the Romany communities of past and present Britain, to Tyson Fury and Towfiq Bihani, one of the forgotten inmates of the Guantanamo bay detention centre. In poems that bristle with linguistic energy and that celebrate poetry's power to give arresting voice to the unspoken and the untold, in ourselves and our societies, FURY is David Morley's most powerfully political work. It is a passionate testament to poetry's capacity to speak to, and for, us and our place in the world—its power to be an outreached hand, like the 'trembling hands' of the magician in 'The Thrown Voice' or the 'living hand' of the poets celebrated in 'Translations of a Stammerer.'

David Morley is a poet and ecologist. He is at the forefront of a new generation of Romany writers in Britain. He won the Ted Hughes Award in 2016 for The Invisible Gift: Selected Poems. His Carcanet collections also include The Magic of What’s There, The Gypsy and the Poet, Enchantment, The Invisible Kings and Scientific Papers. He has served as a judge for several literary prizes such as the T.S. Eliot Prize and the Foyle Young Poets, and he wrote the bestselling The Cambridge Introduction to Creative Writing and co-edited The Cambridge Companion to Creative Writing. He is a winner of a Cholmondeley Award and a Fellow of The Royal Society of Literature.