J. O. Morgan lives on a small farm in the Scottish Borders. He is the author of seven collections of poetry, each a single book-length poem. His first book, Natural Mechanical (2009), won the Aldeburgh First Collection Prize and was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection; its sequel, Long Cuts (2012), was shortlisted for a Scottish Book Award. His third book from CB Editions was At Maldon. In 2015, Morgan published In Casting Off (HappenStance Press). Interference Pattern (Cape Poetry, 2016) was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize and Assurances (Cape Poetry, 2018) won the Costa Poetry Award. The Martian’s Regress (2020) was also shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize.
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