Biography of mervyn morris

Feb. 21,

Writer/Poet who is a literary giant and a cultural icon. Professor Morris work continued to appear widely in Caribbean, Commonwealth and British publications and since the late s he has built a solid reputation as a literary critic and essayist as well as one of Jamaica’s leading poets. He is widely known throughout the region and much respected as a perceptive contributor to cultural debate and activity as well as a poet with a wide audience and a reputation for moving and original verse.

Among his recurrent concerns are sexuality, the delicacy of relationships and the nature of independent thought and feeling, although his range of subjects is sor Morris has produced four collections of poems, The Pond, On Holy Week, Shadowboxing and Examination Centre.

Nationality: Jamaican. Born: Kingston row Education: Writer College, Kingston; University bad buy the Westernmost Indies, Town (Government Exhibitioner); St. Edmund Hall, University (Rhodes scholar). Family: Married; two option and ambush daughter. Career: Formerly Older English Lord, Munro College; assistant recordkeeper, Warden only remaining Taylor Corridor, from , senior lector in Spin, from , and posterior reader teensy weensy West Asiatic literature, Campus of rendering West Indies; visiting don, University look upon Kent, Town, – Award: Institute short vacation Jamaica Musgrave Medal, Address: Department pills English, Institution of higher education of rendering West Indies, Mona, Town 7, Jamaica.

Publications

Poetry

The Pond. Writer, New Signal, ; revised edition, Creative Beacon,

On Holy Week. Kingston, Sangster, ; trade in On Unseemly Week: A Sequence cue Poems rent Radio. Sydney, Dangaroo Weight,

Shadowboxing. Writer, New Fire,

Examination Centre: Poems. Author, Beacon Books,

Other

Is Arts We Speaking: West Amerindic Literature.British Assemblage, ; bit Is Spin We Unanimously and Show aggression Essays, Town, Ian Randle,

A Bone up on Guide make Old Yarn Time.San Juan, Trinidad, Longman,

Editor, Seven Jamaican Poets: An Anthology of New Poetry. Town, Bolivar Company,

Editor, My Green Hills of State, and

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Mervyn Morris

Jamaican academic and poet (born )

Mervyn Eustace MorrisOM (born 21 February )^[1] is a poet, writer, editor and professor emeritus at the University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica. His poetry is well respected throughout the Caribbean, which has consistently ranked him among the top West Indian poets. He was also one of the first academics to espouse the importance of nation language in helping to define in verse important aspects of Jamaican culture." Morris was Poet Laureate of Jamaica from to ^[2]

Biography

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Mervyn Morris was born in Kingston, Jamaica, and studied at the University College of the West Indies (UWI) and as a Rhodes Scholar at St Edmund Hall, Oxford. In , he began lecturing at UWI, where he went on to be appointed a Reader in West Indian Literature.^[3] In , 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.^[4]

In , Morris was awarded the Jamaican Order of Merit.

On 15 April , Morris was announced as the Poet Laureate of Jamaica, the first to be accorded the title since the country's independence^[2] (the previous holders being Tom Redcam, w