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'''Mervyn Eustace Morris''' (b. 1937, [[Kingston, Jamaica]]) is a [[poet]] and [[professor emeritus]] at the [[University of the West Indies]], [[Mona, Jamaica]]. |
'''Mervyn Eustace Morris''' (b. 1937, [[Kingston, Jamaica]]) is a [[poet]] and [[professor emeritus]] at the [[University of the West Indies]], [[Mona, Jamaica]]. |
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== Biography == |
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A [[Rhodes Scholar]], Morris has taught at the University of the West Indies since the 1960s, has published several volumes of poetry, and has edited the works of other [[Caribbean]] writers. |
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Mervyn Morris was born in Jamaica in 1937 and studied at the University College of the West Indies and as [[Rhodes Scholar]] at St Edmund Hall, Oxford. In 1992 he was a UK Arts Council Visiting Writer-in-Residence at the South Bank Centre. He lives in Kingston, Jamaica, where he is Professor Emeritus of Creative Writing & West Indian Literature. Morris has taught at the [[University of the West Indies]] since the 1960s. <ref>[http://www.carcanet.co.uk/cgi-bin/indexer?owner_id=853 Carcanet Press - Mervyn Morris<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>. |
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== Works == |
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Morris has published several volumes of poetry, and has edited the works of other [[Caribbean]] writers. His previous collections include ''The Pond'', ''Shadowboxing'', ''Examination Centre'' and ''On Holy Week''; he also edited ''The Faber Book of Contemporary Caribbean Short Stories'' and published ''Is English We Speaking'' and other essays. In 2006 [[Carcanet Press]] published his Morris' ''I been there, sort of: New and Selected Poems''<ref>[http://www.carcanet.co.uk/cgi-bin/indexer?product=9781857548297 Carcanet Press - Mervyn Morris<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> |
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Most of his poems always, described a way to show the reader what is his feelings and all the stuff that has passed through in his life and that makes a big circumstance about his poems. |
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Revision as of 10:34, 24 September 2008
Mervyn Eustace Morris (b. 1937, Kingston, Jamaica) is a poet and professor emeritus at the University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica.
Biography
Mervyn Morris was born in Jamaica in 1937 and studied at the University College of the West Indies and as Rhodes Scholar at St Edmund Hall, Oxford. In 1992 he was a UK Arts Council Visiting Writer-in-Residence at the South Bank Centre. He lives in Kingston, Jamaica, where he is Professor Emeritus of Creative Writing & West Indian Literature. Morris has taught at the University of the West Indies since the 1960s. [1].
Works
Morris has published several volumes of poetry, and has edited the works of other Caribbean writers. His previous collections include The Pond, Shadowboxing, Examination Centre and On Holy Week; he also edited The Faber Book of Contemporary Caribbean Short Stories and published Is English We Speaking and other essays. In 2006 Carcanet Press published his Morris' I been there, sort of: New and Selected Poems[2]
He is the author of the following famous poems: Little Boy Crying; Family Pictures; Love Is; One, Two; Home; The Roaches; Critic; and Give T'anks.
References
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