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Two Teaching Fellow posts in Creative Writing at Warwick Writing Programme
Poetry another genre
Fiction another genre
A chance to join a programme known for contemporary and experimental writing, with a lively international community. Please share
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Writing the Pantoum: Repetition, Reverie and the Art of Echo
Mon 11 May 2026 10:00 AM to 12:30 PM BST
This Zoom session offers a focused exploration of the pantoum, a form shaped by repetition, pattern, and controlled variation. Get ready to create.
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I’m one of the judges for this year’s Laurel Prize, chaired by Mimi Khalvati, alongside Bethan Laughlin at the Zoological Society of London. The first harvest of books arrived today while I was writing about lichen. laurelprize.com/
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David Morley FRSL retweeted
20 Dec 2025
Imagine you're driving normally on the highway when suddenly... a "superhero" beaver appears, dragging a massive Christmas tree right across the road, forcing an entire line of trucks to slam on the brakes and wait patiently for "him" to cross! 🦫🎄🚚🤣
This is hands-down the most unexpected and hilarious Christmas scene of the year!
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16 Dec 2025
A Christmas poem written and read in an abandoned tree plantation, first published in the London Review of Books.
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16 Dec 2025
And a film of the poem among the Christmas trees where the poem was written.
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11 Nov 2025
Let the mind take its photograph
Of the bright scene, something to wear
Against the heart in the long cold.
from 'A Day in Autumn' by R.S. Thomas
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David Morley FRSL retweeted
1 Nov 2025
Still available- bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002l2… including a recording of Tony Harrison RIP reading Them & [uz] with responses from @ProfDavidMorley Sinéad Morrissey, @danielsluman & US Poet Laureate Arthur Sze. David Morley reads 'The Oath' about swearing the Bodleian oath in Romani 🔥
19 Oct 2025
On this rainy, leafy day @imcmillan brings you autumnal poetry, the work of Tony Harrison, @profdavidmorley, Sinéad Morrissey, @danielsluman and the US Poet Laureate Arthur Sze - all on @r4theverb, @bbcradio4 now !
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David Morley FRSL retweeted
19 Oct 2025
On this rainy, leafy day @imcmillan brings you autumnal poetry, the work of Tony Harrison, @profdavidmorley, Sinéad Morrissey, @danielsluman and the US Poet Laureate Arthur Sze - all on @r4theverb, @bbcradio4 now !
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David Morley FRSL retweeted
14 Oct 2025
This is a wonderful book: immersive, challenging and virtuosic poetry about the environment, birds, Romani culture and language, music and science. Poetry full of wise passion. I loved it. @Carcanet @WarwickWriters @ProfDavidMorley @cwaleicester @EverybodyReview
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14 Oct 2025
On #AdaLovelaceDay, I honour the genius of women in science with my poem Ada Lovelace and a sonnet to Caroline Herschel. #WomenInSTEM #Poetry #AdaLovelace #CarolineHerschel
Published in the @LRB:
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8 Oct 2025
🎙️ The Verb, BBC Radio 4 19 Oct, 17:10 David Morley & Sinéad Morrissey join Ian McMillan to chat birdsong, RS Thomas, Tony Harrison, stammering, and a gobful of pebbles. With Daniel Sluman (Versus Versus) & Arthur Sze, U.S. Poet Laureate. 🔗 bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002l23… @Carcanet
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2 Oct 2025
Off to BBC Media City to record The Verb with Ian McMillan, Sinead Morrissey and Fiona Benson.
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28 Sep 2025
Then it's the kumquat fruit expresses best
how days have darkness round them like a rind,
life has a skin of death that keeps its zest.
'A Kumquat for John Keats'
Tony Harrison R.I.P.
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2 Sep 2025
‘Speech thaws into life’ – read Rebecca Tamás on how Passion celebrates Romany language, resilience, and our intimacy with the natural world @Carcanet theguardian.com/books/2025/a…
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David Morley FRSL retweeted
21 Aug 2025
Fabulous and important book by @SiobhanKeenan5 about Shakespeare's actor Richard Burbage - one of the greatest actors of the age!! A must read for all Shakespeare and Early theatre fans!! @ShakesInstitute
21 Aug 2025
Very pleased that my latest book on Shakespearean actor Richard Burbage is out today! It took a long time, but I'm glad to have got there in the end. Richard Burbage and the Shakespearean Stage: A 'Delightful Proteus': Siobhan Keenan: The Arden Shakespeare - Bloomsbury
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23 Aug 2025
Great excerpt from Siobhan Keenan's fantastic new book on Richard Burbage @FolgerLibrary
22 Aug 2025
If anyone fancies reading an excerpt from my new book on Richard Burbage, the lovely people at the Folger Shakespeare Library have included an extract on their Shakespeare and Beyond blog: folger.edu/blogs/shakespeare…
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