Poet Dave Morrison will perform his music/poetry hybrid Poetry Rocks at the Camden Opera House, on the third floor, in the Gentlemen's Club, Friday, September 30 at 7 p.m. All are welcome, admission is free, and a book signing will follow.

Before settling in coastal Maine and publishing 11 books of poetry, Dave Morrison spent years playing guitar in rock ‘n’ roll bars in Boston and New York City. Poetry Rocks merges Morrison's life on the stage with his life on the page as his poems cross the thin rope bridge of simple guitar grooves.

“Poetry Rocks is not songs, and not exactly poems,” wrote a reviewer of the Maine Writers and Publisher’s Alliance. “Morrison delivers his poems over simple looping guitar grooves, created from scratch for the audience in real time, that serve as distinct musical frames for each poem.”

"uniquely soothing, yet powerful, performance art. Your spirit will soar as Dave reads some of his newer poems while accompanying himself on the guitar." (Adventures in Living Well)

Poetry Rocks is available in audio form from Mishara Music.

Copies of Morrison's new collection, the Whole Meghilla, will be available for purchase and signing. The Whole Maghilla is a collection of his most-read poems from Sweet (2006) to Cancer Poems (2015).