FURY

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 poetrys power to give arresting voice to the unspoken and the untold, in ourselves and our societies, FURY is David Morleys most powerfully political work. It is a passionate testament to poetrys 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.