Peelin Orange: Collected Poems by Mervyn Morris Random House His own poems come to

His own poems come to him gradually

and the last of which dates from the time he spent undergoing ‘re-education through labour’ – and digging graves – during the mid-1970s

Her other books include Glad of These Times (2007)

simple yet elusive language

its secondary sounds – the crickets speaking pure rhetoric

Peelin Orange: Collected Poems by Mervyn Morris Random House His own poems come toThe 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