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Shadows and Birdsong featured on East Croydon Cool

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

A Great Review of My Poetry Collection, Shadows and Birdsong

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/

A Poem From My Recently Released Poetry Collection, Shadows and Birdsong

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 BirdsongCaught 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

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.

 

Lassoed

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!

A4 Star Review of my Poetry Collection Shadows and Birdsong

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

Launch of Shadows and Birdsong on the World Poetry Cafe

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/

 

Another Great Review of Shadows and Birdsong

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/

A 5 Star Review of my Poetry Collection Shadows and Birdsong

I was delighted to read this 5 star review of my recently published poetry collection Shadows and Birdsong, which is available in Kindle and paperback. To read the review please follow this link https://aspholessaria.co.uk/2026/08/17/review-of-shadows-and-birdsong-by-kevin-morris/

Changing Seasons

The weather is good

(According to some).

In the summer wood

Leaves long dead

Brush my greying head.

 

Autumn will come

And the heat cease.

Yet leaves fall

And I recall

Autumn is yet to come.

 

In my childhood

I collected conkers and acorns

From leaf-strewn lawns

 

Today there is little breeze

And the leaves

Fall from trees

Thirsting for drink

 

 

And I hope for rain.

It will come,

But what has been done

Can not be undone