Peelin Orange: Collected Poems by Mervyn Morris knives forks spoons spoken word

spoken word

Due out 2nd February 2017 from Cape

in poems that echo the plight of others under duress

Matthew Dickman is the Poetry Editor of Tin House magazine

Peelin Orange: Collected Poems by Mervyn Morris knives forks spoons spoken wordThe Jamaican Poet Laureate Mervyn Morris has had an enormous impact on the literature of the Caribbean. Peelin Orange shows why with its wonderful mix of Englishes, its wit, its love of people and places, and its sense of transcendence. Mervyn Morris was born in Jamaica in 1937 and studied at the University College of the West Indies and St Edmund Hall, Oxford. In 1992 he was a UK Arts Council Visiting Writer in Residence at the South Bank Centre. His