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Morrison was born in 1959 in the Boston suburb of Reading, Massachusetts. As a young man he played guitar and sang in several rock & roll bands in Boston (the Trademarks and True Blue) and New York (the Juke Savages).
Dave Morrison has published sixteen books of poetry. His work has been featured in many literary journals and anthologies and read on Writer's Almanac, Take Heart, and Poems From Here. “sharp, revealing imagery in crisp and subtle but tightly rhythmic language”
Dec 23, 2020 · After spending years playing in rock bands in Boston and NYC, Morrison has published fifteen collections of poetry including Clubland (poems about rock & roll bars in verse and meter, Fighting Cock Press 2011) and Cancer Poems (JukeBooks 2015), plus a CD (Poetry Rocks- Mishara Music).
Feb 11, 2023 · Morrison has published sixteen books of poetry including Clubland (poems about rock & roll bars in verse and meter, Fighting Cock Press 2011), Cancer Poems (JukeBooks 2015) and Psalms (100 micro poems, JukeBooks 2017). We Are Here and It Is Now (Soul Finger Press 2024) is his most recent collection.
May 14, 2023 · Dave Morrison ’s “Poetry Rocks” album was released by Mishara Records in 2015 and has been described as “poems crossing a rope bridge of simple looped guitar grooves.” He has published 17 books of poetry and his poems have appeared in many literary magazines and anthologies.
Aug 10, 2021 · A Murder of Crows Descended, Displacing an Exultation of Larks is poet Dave Morrison's sixteenth collection. Writing during a pandemic amplified his usual themes of yearning and loss, unresolved personal history, the back-alley brawl between joy and despair, endurance and redemption, all with his trademark understatement.
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Poetry readings, and poetry and jazz or folk events organised by Morrison alongside the magazines developed into the Wick Festival of Poetry, Folk and Jazz, which ran from 1977 until 1983. Morrison continued as a cultural catalyst in Caithness until his death in 2012.
