Fury

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The sixth Carcanet collection from Ted Hughes Award-winner and creator of the popular Writing Challenges literature podcast, this is Morley’s most political work yet. He gives imaginative voice to the natural world and those silenced or overlooked, from Romany communities to Towfiq Bihani, a ‘forgotten’ inmate of Guantanamo Bay.

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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’.

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Weight 130 g
Dimensions 21.6 × 13.5 × 0.8 cm
Author

Publisher

Carcanet Poetry

Imprint

Cover

Paperback

Pages

80

Language

English

Edition
Dewey

821.92 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K