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Alan Morrison
A Tapestry of Absent Sitters (Autumn 2008)
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£8.00
| Alan Morrison was born in Brighton in 1974. His poetry first appeared in Don’t Think of Tigers (The Do Not Press, 2001). His acclaimed play for voices, Picaresque, has been performed at venues such as The Poetry Cafe and the George Bernard Shaw Theatre RADA. Appearances in over thirty journals in the UK and internationally.
His debut volume The Mansion Gardens was nominated by publisher Paula Brown for the 2006 T.S.Eliot Prize. Morrison is Poet-in- Residence at Mill View psychiatric hospital, Hove, and editor of radical webzine, the Recusant. For more information on Alan Morrison, visit: www.alanmorrison.co.uk For more information on the Recusant, visit www.therecusant.org.uk |
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Morrison has attained the Holy Grail of poetic endeavour: a strong, distinctive voice With Alan Morrison’s poetry I become aware of a definite personal voice, his own unique verbal DNA. This seems true even when, in snatches, I am reminded of Dylan Thomas, especially of his Under Milk Wood Alan Morrison writes with bitter craft, radical eloquence and a passionate Naturalism. Like John Davidson, Robert Tressell, even Gorky, he makes rich poetry out of the thin and battered language of poverty. This is the real thing
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