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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 Clares 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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Enchantment by David Morley is a linguistic feast. --Jonathan Bate, Sunday Telegraph Enchantment by David Morley is a linguistic feast. --Jonathan Bate, Sunday Telegraph Morley has not so much created a new universe as uncovered one . . . [he] brings Romany vocabulary fizzing and crackling into our consciousness. --Guardian Morley has not so much created a new universe as uncovered one . . . [he] brings Romany vocabulary fizzing and crackling into our consciousness. -- Guardian

Enchantment by David Morley is a linguistic feast. --Jonathan Bate, Sunday Telegraph

"""Morley has not so much created a new universe as uncovered one . . . [he] brings Romany vocabulary fizzing and crackling into our consciousness."" --Guardian ""Enchantment by David Morley is a linguistic feast."" --Jonathan Bate, Sunday Telegraph"

Enchantment by David Morley is a linguistic feast. --Jonathan Bate, Sunday Telegraph Morley has not so much created a new universe as uncovered one . . . [he] brings Romany vocabulary fizzing and crackling into our consciousness. -- Guardian Enchantment by David Morley is a linguistic feast. --Jonathan Bate, Sunday Telegraph Morley has not so much created a new universe as uncovered one . . . [he] brings Romany vocabulary fizzing and crackling into our consciousness. --Guardian

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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.

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