Mervyn Morris has just given me an early Christmas present that I’m going to share with you.On Monday, December 7, 2009, I’ll be publishing his poem, “Palimpsest” on this blog.
As a student of Mervyn’s poetry, all the hallmarks of his craft are evident: brevity, dry wit, and multilayered meaning(s). This is also the first time that I have seen him deal with the theme of his mortality and the endurance of art in this way.
John O’Donohue in Divine Beauty mused about writers like Mervyn Morris: “The presence of the contemplative and the artist in a culture is ultimately an invitation to awaken and engage one’s neglected gifts, to enter more fully into the dream of the eternal that has brought us here to earth.”
Stay tuned and enjoy.
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MERVYN MORRIS is the author of six books of poetry, including I been there, sort of: New and Selected Poems (Carcanet Press, 2006).
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