I’m grateful to East Croydon Cool for promoting my new poetry collection Shadows and Birdsong by featuring my poem “Caught Up in Thoughts of Work”. You can see their Instagram post here: https://www.instagram.com/p/DdGqxRyMNgs/?hl=en-gb
I was extremely pleased to receive another wonderful review of my recently released poetry collection, Shadows and Birdsong.
“… I personally liked Should I Shed a Tear and Umbrella, but Heart to Heart I loved them all …”
To read the review in full, please visit: https://echoesinanemptyroom.com/2026/09/08/shadows-and-birdsong-by-k-morris/
On 10 August, I published my poetry collection Shadows and Birdsong, which is available in Kindle and paperback. You can find it here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0HDQ9QK3Z/
To listen to me reading one of the poems from Shadows and Birdsong — Caught Up in Thoughts of Work — on TikTok, please click here: https://www.tiktok.com/@kevinmorrispoet/video/7660016517932682518
If you do read Shadows and Birdsong, please consider leaving a review.
At the edge of the churchyard
I pause as a solitary bird sings.
Spring has long gone.
And early Autumn says all ways
End in the churchyard.
The traffic passes.
When a young lady whose morals are loose
Went and lassoed me with her noose,
And I said, “honey,
I don’t have money!”
That girl she cut me loose!
The heat has passed,
Temporarily.
The rain
Turns the grass
Green again.
Autumn draws near.
Another year
Will come.
But, if I am no longer here
Will it still be so?
Philosophers go
Down rabbit holes.
While I see
The rain
Has brought the greenery
Back again.
And I feel happy,
Temporarily.
I was delighted to receive this 4 star review of my recently released poetry collection Shadows and Birdsong:
“Kevin Morris’s latest poetry collection, Shadows and Birdsong, is a meditation on aging and mortality, familiar territory for readers who have read his previous collections. What sets this collection apart is a refining and deepening of Morris’s craft. The approaches to the transience of life are more varied, the rhyme schemes more sophisticated …”. To read the review on Goodreads please follow this link Elizabeth Gauffreau’s review of Shadows and Birdsong | Goodreads
All smells fresh after rain.
The scent of wet earth
Speaks of rebirth.
But excess heat
Will defeat the rain.
These dead leaves
Hang
Or fall
And I recall
Autumn is yet to come.
I was delighted to appear on the World Poetry Café to celebrate the birthday of the show’s tech, Victor, and to launch my recently published poetry collection, Shadows and Birdsong, which is available in Kindle and paperback.
To listen to the podcast please follow this link https://www.mixcloud.com/VictorSchwartzman/world-poetry-cafe-august-20-kevin-morris-and-victors-81-birthday/
. My segment starts approximately 20 minutes in.
To download a sample or to purchase Shadows and Birdsong please click here https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HDQ9QK3Z/
On 10 August, I released my poetry collection, Shadows and Birdsong, which is available in Kindle and paperback.
I was pleased to receive this wonderful review of Shadows and Birdsong https://audreydriscoll.com/2026/08/18/new-release-shadows-and-birdsong-by-k-morris/
K Morris - Poet 