J. O. Morgan | |
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| Born | 1978 (age 47–48) Edinburgh, Scotland |
| Occupation | Poet |
| Notable works | At Maldon, Assurances, The Martian's Regress |
| Notable awards | Costa Poetry Award |
J. O. Morgan (born 1978) is an author from Edinburgh, Scotland. The seventh of his volumes of verse,The Martian's Regress (2020), is set in the far future, when humans "lose their humanity."[1] He has also published two novels:Pupa (2021) andAppliance (2022).
Each of Morgan's seven poetry volumes is a single book-length work. His fifth,Interference Pattern, was shortlisted for theT. S. Eliot Prize[2] and his first,Natural Mechanical, won theAldeburgh Poetry Prize in 2009.[3]
The third work,At Maldon (2014), revisits the Old English epic "The Battle of Maldon", detailing events that took place on the Essex coast in 991 CE.[4] A recording of Morgan reading it was made for thePoetry Archive in 2014.[5] He has recited the whole work from memory on several occasions.
Royal Air Force involvement in maintaining the Airborne Nuclear Deterrent in the early Cold War period forms the basis for Morgan's sixth publication,Assurances (2018). Morgan's father was in the RAF and he worked with Britain's nuclear deterrent.[6] It was shortlisted for theForward Prize[7] and won theCosta Poetry Award, when the judges praised it as "original, compelling, ambitious, highly accomplished and marvellously sustained".[6]
Morgan's seventh volume of poetry,The Martian's Regress (2020), is set in the far future. It considers "what humans become when they lose their humanity," and explores "what a fragile environment eventually makes of those who persist in tampering with it."[1]
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