However, his earliest influences were John Keats, Wilfred Owen, William Blake, Andrew Marvell, Emily Brontë and Percy Shelley.
Morrison describes the long title poem as an "Audenic dialectic" in verse; it is also a Socialist-Catholic polemic in opposition to the welfare regimen of ex-Secretary of the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), Iain Duncan Smith.
In August 2010 Morrison compiled, contributed to and edited a collection of political poems entitled Emergency Verse - Poetry in Defence of the Welfare State[21] (Caparison) endorsed by Caroline Lucas MP[22] This was followed in 2012 by a second, significantly bigger anti-austerity anthology, The Robin Hood Book – Verse Versus Austerity (patron Mark Serwotka of the PCS Union).
This anthology, patroned by John McArdle of the Black Triangle Campaign, had immediate impact, being mentioned by Labour MP Steve McCabe during a welfare debate in Parliament on 17 May 2021.
[25] Morrison's poetry and monographs have appeared in journals including Culture Matters, Disability Arts Online, The Fortnightly Review, The International Times, The London Magazine, The Morning Star, Stand, and The Whistling Shade.