PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
J. O. Morgan lives in Scotland. He is the author of six previous books, each a single, book-length poem. His last work, Assurances (2018), won the Costa Poetry Award and was shortlisted for the Forward Prize. Natural Mechanical (2009) was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection and won the Aldeburgh First Collection Prize. His 2016 work, Interference Pattern, was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize.
These deceptively simple tales... reveal how magical technology does people absolutely no good whatsoever... superb. * The Times, Science Fiction Book of the Month * I seriously doubt I will read a more significant book of poetry this year. The finale is truly affecting, a plangent and profound speck of light. * The Scotsman, on ASSURANCES * Eliot comes repeatedly to mind in reading Interference Pattern because, in its tragic grandeur and sophistication, it is a poem that could come to be for the twenty-first century what The Waste Land was to the twentieth. * Times Literary Supplement, on INTERFERENCE PATTERN * A rippling, impeccable lyricism that's delicious to read aloud. If you haven't discovered Morgan, this weird, unsettling trip is the perfect introduction. * The Telegraph, on THE MARTIAN'S REGRESS * Superbly unsettling... Reading Appliance, I was put in mind of Asimov's I, Robot, for the way each story sheds light on a different moral angle of the book's world, and of ours... gripping. -- Tristram Fane Saunders * Daily Telegraph *
