Peelin Orange: Collected Poems by Mervyn Morris Random House The selection ranges from early

The selection ranges from early poems of feminist rebellion and tender observation of children to elegies for the poet’s father and close friends

home and far away

Behind every famous man

“Richard Lambert’s voice carries a stately quietness through the line of his poems without the least sense of contrivance

Peelin Orange: Collected Poems by Mervyn Morris Random House The selection ranges from earlyThe Jamaican Poet Laureate Mervyn Morris has had an enormous impact on the literature of the Caribbean. Peelin Orange shows why with its wonderful mix of Englishes, its wit, its love of people and places, and its sense of transcendence. Mervyn Morris was born in Jamaica in 1937 and studied at the University College of the West Indies and St Edmund Hall, Oxford. In 1992 he was a UK Arts Council Visiting Writer in Residence at the South Bank Centre. His