David Morley won the Ted Hughes Award for New Poetry for The Invisible Gift: Selected Poems (Carcanet Press) and a Cholmondeley Award for his contribution to poetry. His poetry and prose have been translated into several languages and his book on creative writing The Cambridge Introduction to Creative Writing is popular around the world.

His Carcanet collections include The Magic of What’s There, The Gypsy and the Poet, Enchantment and The Invisible Kings. He is Professor of Creative Writing at Warwick University. In 2018 he was elected a Fellow of The Royal Society of Literature. A Belfast Kiss was a winner in the 1990 Book & Pamphlet Competition.