David Morley, author of Enchantment, Scientific Papers and The Invisible Kings, will discuss Romani poetry and language at a conference entitled 'Smatterings: Why Languages Matter' on 26 March; his presentation will be followed by a reading with Marina Warner. The conference will be held at Cumberland Lodge in Windsor, in association with the British Academy. To find out more about the conference, click here.

David Morley is an ecologist and naturalist by background. His poetry has won fourteen writing awards and prizes, including the Templar Poetry Prize, the Poetry Business Competition, an Arts Council of England Writer’s Award, an Eric Gregory Award, the Raymond Williams Prize and a Hawthornden Fellowship. His 2007 Carcanet collection The Invisible Kings was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. His ‘writing challenges’ podcasts are among the most popular literature downloads on iTunes worldwide: two episodes are now preloaded on to all demo Macs used in Apple Stores around the world. He has performed his poems and stories at many of the major literary festivals. He writes essays, criticism and reviews for the Guardian and Poetry Review. A leading international advocate of creative writing, he wrote The Cambridge Introduction to Creative Writing and is co-editor with the Australian poet Philip Neilsen of The Cambridge Companion to Creative Writing. He currently teaches at the University of Warwick.