Enchantment

A blacksmith creates a girl from fire. A hedgehog conquers a kingdom. How do you ride a Camargue horse through time? How do circus people live, when the glitterball has stopped turning? In these poem-stories David Morley reinvents the oral tradition of poetry as a form of magic, marvel and making. Opening with a celebration of friendship, the poems tell the world into being. In myths of origin and the natural world, the terrible chronicles of history and the saving power of folk wisdom, the poet weaves spells of Romany and circus language, invents forms and shapes, drawing his readers into a 'lit circle' magical and true. Enchantment concludes a cycle of poems that began with David Morley's celebrated Scientific Papers and The Invisible Kings.

ISBN	1847770622	Pages	78
ISBN13	9781847770622 (What's this?)	Weight (grammes)	136
Publisher	Carcanet Press Ltd	Published in	Manchester
Imprint	Carcanet Press Ltd	Height (mm)	216
Format	Paperback	Width (mm)	135
Publication date	29 Nov 2010	Spine width (mm)	8
DEWEY	821.92	Academic level	General
DEWEY edition	DC22

		Fresh Water		11
		The Lucy Poem		17
		Chorus		20
		Proserpina		21
		Abandoned Christmas Tree Plantation		23
		Hedgehurst		27
		Taken Away		37
		Romany Sarah		39
		The Circling Game		40
		Camargues		46
		The Library Beneath the Harp		49
		Nightingales		57
		A Lit Circle		58
		Spinning		69
		Skeleton Bride		73
		Notes		81

The strange atmospherics suffuse every page while the balance struck between mystery and disclosure can be breathtaking...Such moments led me to feel that Morley had not so much created a new universe as uncovered one. Any universe is bound together by language; and Morley brings Romany vocabulary fizzing and crackling into our consciousness' - Tim Liardet, Guardian

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