Morris, Mervyn

About Mervyn Morris

Reviews

McKenzie, St Hope Earl. “Peelin Orange: Collected Poems.” Caribbean Quarterly, vol. 65, no. 1, Mar. 2019

Griffith, Glyne. “The Lives of Words.” Caribbean Review of Books, no. 14, Nov. 2007

Morrison, Derrilyn. “The Art of Mervyn Morris: An Examination of Two Poems.” Sargasso, no. 9, Jan. 1997

Interviews

Rothe, Thomas. “‘What Seems to Be Standard English Often Isn’t’: A Conversation on Language and West Indian Literature with Jamaican Poet Mervyn Morris.” Meridional, no. 10, Apr. 2018

Westall, Claire. “An Interview with Mervyn Morris.” Wasafiri, vol. 31, no. 1, Mar. 2016

James, Louis. “Mervyn Morris in Conversation.” Wasafiri, vol. 26, no. 3, 2011

Doumerc, Eric. “An Interview with Mervyn Morris.” Kunapipi, vol. 31, no. 2, 2009

Collins, Loretta. “The Role of Creole Orature, Caribbean Performance Poetry, and Across-Class Collaborations in the Development of Jamaican Literary and Popular Arts: An Interview with Mervyn Morris.” Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies, vol. 6, no. 1, 1999

Mordecai, Pam. “‘The Labels Pin Them Down’: An Interview with Mervyn Morris.” Matatu, vol. 12, 1994

Criticism

Lyn, Gloria. “Religion and Poetry: A Study of Mervyn Morris’s On Holy Week.” Journal of West Indian Literature, vol. 1, no. 1, Oct. 1986

Salick, Roydon. “‘Balanced/in Pain’: A Study of the Male/Female Relationship in the Poetry of Mervyn Morris.” Journal of West Indian Literature, vol. 1, no. 1, Oct. 1986

Works

Short Story Collections

Is English We Speaking and Other Essays (1993)

As editor: The Faber Book of Contemporary Caribbean Short Stories (1990)

Poetry Collections

Peelin Orange: Collected Poems (2017)

I Been There, Sort Of (2006)

Examination Centre: Poems (1992)

Shadowboxing: Poems (1979)

On Holy Week: A Sequence of Poems for Radio (1976)

The Pond: A Book of Poems (1973)

Essays/Articles/Non-Fiction/Short Stories