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Alan Morrison (born 18 July 1974, Brighton) is a British poet.〔http://www.theguardian.com/society/2010/sep/01/poetry-welfare-cuts-alan-morrison〕 ==Overview of works== Morrison's work belongs to no particular school, but owes some debt to fairly unconventional (and largely Scottish) influences such as John Davidson and Harold Monro, as well as Welsh poets Alun Lewis and Dylan Thomas. His work is often characterised by a strongly social and polemical tone (drawing on the Audenesque), as epitomised in two of his long poems: ''Clocking-in for the Witching Hour'' (new revised edition, Smokestack 2010), which charts the thought processes of his father on a night shift as a security officer, through themes of ancestry and self-perceived failure; and the Blakeian (''Keir Hardie Street'' ) (new revised edition, Smokestack, 2010),〔http://www.inpressbooks.co.uk/keir_hardie_street_alan_morrison_i020821.aspx Keir Hardie Street, Inpress Books〕 in which a fictitious, turn-of-the-century, working-class poet discovers a Socialist Utopia off the dreamt-up Sea-Green Line of the London Underground.〔Alan Morrison, ''Keir Hardie Street'', Smokestack Books, 2010, pp. 9-42〕 Morrison's work can also demonstrate an acute empathy for mental suffering, as in his openly confessional piece ''Feed a Cold, Starve a Fever'' (2004), in which he traces the possible origins of his own obsessive preoccupations to a childhood subtly punctuated by Catholicism.〔Alan Morrison, ''Feed a Cold, Starve a Fever'', Sixties Press, 2004, pp. 1-68〕 Morrison's most acclaimed work so far is ''Picaresque'', a play for voices based on his experiences working at an all-male night shelter in Brighton, in which he juxtaposes the homeless "residents" with piratical alter-egos. The piece has been performed several times between 2000 and 2006, at venues including The Poetry Café and the George Bernard Shaw Theatre, RADA. Comparisons have been drawn with Dylan Thomas' ''Under Milk Wood'' – ((DADA South ) and (Samuel French Ltd. )), but in terms of subject and tone other reviewers have seen the work as more echoing the likes of Robert Tressell and Maxim Gorky (Andy Croft, Smokestack). His 2006 collection, ''The Mansion Gardens'', was nominated for the 2006 T. S. Eliot Prize by publisher Paula Brown and critically praised in journals such as ''The London Magazine'' and ''Other Poetry''. His 2009 volume, ''A Tapestry of Absent Sitters'' (Waterloo Press) demonstrates a further radicalising of his already distinctive voice with a wide breadth of style and subject and nods to his own poetical and political influences. In August 2010 Morrison compiled, contributed to and edited a collection of political poems entitled ''Emergency Verse - Poetry in Defence of the Welfare State'' (Caparison press) endorsed by Caroline Lucas MP 〔http://www.therecusant.org.uk The Recusant eZine〕 Morrison worked for over a year as editor and designer of ''Poetry Express'', journal of (Survivors' Poetry ), (a mental health literary charity); a position in which he was able to promote the writing of other survivors of mental distress, most notably, (David Kessel ), whose collected poems, ''O the Windows of the Bookshop Must Be Broken'', he edited, designed and prefaced.〔Alan Morrison, preface to ''O the Windows of the Bookshop Must Be Broken'', Survivor's Press, 2006, pp 7-16〕 Since then, he has run a series of poetry workshops in his local community for mental health and disabled service users. In 2008 he gained an NHS Artists' Award to produce an anthology of writing through his workshops at Mill View psychiatric hospital, Hove (in 2009). Morrison was then commissioned to write his own poetic response to this residency, resulting in his epic work ''Captive Dragons / The Shadow Thorns'', published in October 2011. His latest collection is ''Blaze a Vanishing'' and ''The Tall Skies'' (Waterloo Press, 2013), which was funded by an Arts Council Grant for the Arts Award. Much of this volume is about historical and contemporary Sweden, including poem-tributes to figures such as Emanuel Swedenborg, Alfred Nobel, Ingmar Bergman, but with particular focus on the early 20thc. Swedish 'proletarian' writers and poets such as Ivar Lo Johansson, Dan Andersson, and Moa and Harry Martinson. Morrison is founding editor of radical literary webzine, ''the Recusant'' and of the Caparison imprint which has produced the two anti-cuts anthologies ''Emergency Verse'' and ''The Robin Hood Book''. Morrison's poetry has been published in over thirty journals including ''Aesthetica'', ''(Aireings )'', ''Illuminations'' (US), ''The London Magazine'', ''(Pennine Platform )'', ''(The Penniless Press )'', ''Poetry Salzburg Review'', ''Stand'' (2010) and ''(The Yellow Crane )''; and online at (Great Works ), (Strix Varia ) and (Snakeskin ). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Alan Morrison (poet)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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