J. O. Morgan

• Name — J. O. Morgan • Born — 1978 • Birthplace — Edinburgh, Scotland • Occupation — Poet • Notable Works — At Maldon, Assurances, The Martian's Regress • Awards — Costa Poetry Award

Each of Morgan's seven poetry volumes is a single book-length work. His fifth, Interference Pattern, was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize and his first, Natural Mechanical, won the Aldeburgh Poetry Prize in 2009. 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. A recording of Morgan reading it was made for the Poetry Archive in 2014. 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. It was shortlisted for the Forward Prize and won the Costa Poetry Award, when the judges praised it as "original, compelling, ambitious, highly accomplished and marvellously sustained". 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."

• Natural Mechanical (CB editions 2009). • Long Cuts (CB editions, 2011). • At Maldon (CB editions, 2013). • In Casting Off (HappenStance Press, 2015). • Interference Pattern (Jonathan Cape, 2016). • Assurances (Jonathan Cape, 2018). • The Martian's Regress (Jonathan Cape, 2020).

• Pupa (Henningham Family Press, 2021) • Appliance (Jonathan Cape, 2022).