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Gypsy and the Poet
Author(s): David Morley (Author)
- Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd
- Publication Date: 29 Aug. 2013
- Language: English
- Print length: 78 pages
- ISBN-10: 1847771246
- ISBN-13: 9781847771247
Book Description
Beginning with the real-life encounter between the poet John Clare and a Gypsy named Wisdom Smith, David Morley reinvigorates the sonnet sequence to stage the fellowship that develops between the two men. We see the Gypsy and the poet banter, argue and teach each other lessons; work, love, and lose what they have loved. The central section of the book enacts Clare’s own belief in the creative forms of nature itself: ‘I found the poems in the fields / And only wrote them down’.
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About the Author
David Morley is the cofounder of the writing program in the department of English and comparative literary studies at the University of Warwick. He is the author of The Cambridge Introduction to Creative Writing and the poetry collections Enchantment, The Invisible Kings, and Scientific Papers. He has written for the Guardian and Poetry Review and is a recipient of the Templar Poetry Prize, an Arts Council of England Writers Award, an Eric Gregory Award, the Raymond Williams Prize, and a Hawthornden Fellowship.
