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English Laughter

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Author: Alan Morrison
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9789363540569
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Publisher: Cyberwit.net
Pub. Date: 2026
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Price: $15
 
 

In Alan Morrison’s fourteenth poetry collection, and his second with Cyberwit, war and conflict are tackled, both contemporary and historical, and how cultural figures get caught up in them. Most fundamentally, English Laughter is concerned with the resurfacing of fascism and the normalisation of racism across the twenty-first century West, with poems addressing the rise of Faragism and the far right 'Raise the Colours’ flag campaigns in the UK. As with much of Morrison’s work, there is a hauntological aura of rose-tinted pasts and long-postponed futures.

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Alan Morrison

Alan Morrison is author of fourteen books of poetry, most recently: Anxious Corporals (Smokestack, 2021), Wolves Come Grovelling (Culture Matters, 2023), Rag Argonauts (Caparison, 2024). He is also author of a verse play, Picaresque (2005/8), and a historical novel in verse, The Alderbank Wade (Culture Matters, 2025/6), which was nominated for the Walter Scott and Queen Mary Small Press Fiction prizes. His poems and monographs have appeared in over 80+ journals including The Fortnightly Review, Illuminations (US), The London Magazine, Long Poem Magazine, The Penniless Press, Poetry Salzburg Review (Austria), Red Poets (Wales), Stand, Vsesvit–Ukrainian Journal of World Literature, The Whistling Shade (US), World Literature Today (US). He was a winner of the Bread & Roses Poetry Prize 2018, and Highly Commended in the inaugural Shelley Memorial Poetry Prize 2022. He is founding editor of The Recusant, and is current co-poetry editor for The Morning Star newspaper. He has received grants from the John Masefield Memorial Trust, the Oppenheim-John Downes Memorial Trust, and the Royal Literary Fund. Website: www.alanmorrison.co.uk 


 
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