The Magic of What’s There

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. A dramatic long poem, The Death of Wisdom Smith, Prince of Gypsies, has been published by The Melos Press. He is Professor at Warwick University and Monash University, Melbourne.