Mervyn Morris (b. 1937 in Kingston, Jamaica) studied at the University College of the West Indies and, as a Rhodes Scholar, at St Edmund Hall, Oxford. He taught at the University o...показать большеMervyn Morris (b. 1937 in Kingston, Jamaica) studied at the University College of the West Indies and, as a Rhodes Scholar, at St Edmund Hall, Oxford. He taught at the University of the West Indies, retiring in 2002 as Professor of Creative Writing and West Indian Literature. He is the author of ‘Is English We Speaking’ and Other Essays (1999), Making West Indian Literature (2005) and Miss Lou: Louise Bennett and Jamaican Culture (2014). His collections of poetry are The Pond (1973, revised 1997), Shadowboxing (1979), Examination Centre (1992), Vestiges (a limited edition, 1996), On Holy Week (1976, 1993, 2016), and I been there, sort of: New and Selected Poems (2006). A Poetry Archive recording of him reading became available in 2011. He received Jamaica’s Order of Merit in 2009, and was appointed Poet Laureate in 2014.показать меньше