David Morley

One particularly great poem is David Morley's "Chorus" in TheWolf, Nov. 2009, issue 22. Repetitive poetry is hard to pull off, it is rarely done well since Modernism or since Frost, but here he succeeds. There is a real epic, wide open horizon feeling in this piece. It's quite like Seamus Heaney, with the same type of lovely, earthy natureness. It draws you in and is soothing while still being invigorating.

Here's an excerpt:

The song-thrush slams down gauntlets on its snail-anvil.
The nightjar murmurs in nightmare. The dawn is the chorus.
The bittern blasts the mists wide with a booming foghorn.
The nuthatch nails another hatch shut. The dawn is the chorus.
The merlin bowls a boomerang over bracken then catches it.
The capercaillie uncorks its bottled throat. The dawn is the chorus.
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