Mervyn Morris

Mervyn Eustace Morris OM (Jamaica) (born 1937) is a  Jamaican poet.

Life
Mervyn Morris was born in Kingston, Jamaica, and studied at the University College of the West Indies and as Rhodes Scholar at St Edmund Hall, Oxford. In 1992 he was a UK Arts Council Visiting Writer-in-Residence at the South Bank Centre. He lives in Kingston, Jamaica., where he is Professor Emeritus of Creative Writing & West Indian Literature. Morris and professor emeritus at the University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica, where he has taught since the 1960s.

Writing
Morris has published several volumes of poetry, and has edited the works of other Caribbean writers. His previous collections include The Pond, Shadowboxing, Examination Centre and On Holy Week; he also edited The Faber Book of Contemporary Caribbean Short Stories and published Is English We Speaking and other essays. In 2006 Carcanet Press published his Morris' I been there, sort of: New and Selected Poems

His well-known poems include: 'Little Boy Crying', 'Family Pictures', 'Love Is', 'One, Two', 'Home', 'The Roaches' and 'Critic'.