Morrissey's first novel is frontrunner for this year's Bad Sex In Fiction prize

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Morrissey's first novel List of the Lost has been widely panned by critics
Book, which is about 'demonology', has cringeworthy sex scene
Now a 'frontrunner' for Bad Sex in Fiction prize, awarded next month

Published: 08:54 EST, 25 September 2015 | Updated: 18:37 EST, 25 September 2015

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While he's famously tight-lipped about his own private life, Morrissey is much more forthcoming when it comes to his literary creations.

The sex scenes featured in the melancholy singer's first novel, List of the Lost, are so bad that the organisers behind the Bad Sex in Fiction prize have revealed that they might be able to call off the search for this year's winner.

Morrissey's book, which he describes as about 'demonology…the left-handed path of black magic' has widely been panned but it is the fruitier scenes that have attracted the most attention.

Stick to lyrics not literature: Morrissey's first nove List of the Lost has attracted ridicule for its sex scenes

In the book, about 'demonology', the main characters, Eliza and Ezrea, are caught up in a 'dangerous and clamorous rollercoaster coil of sexually violent rotation'

When his central protagonists, Eliza and Ezrea, make for the bedroom, the resulting encounter is one long, unbroken stream of awkwardness.

He writes: 'Eliza and Ezra rolled together into the one giggling snowball of full-figured copulation, screaming and shouting as they playfully bit and pulled at each other in a dangerous and clamorous rollercoaster coil of sexually violent rotation with Eliza’s breasts barrel-rolled across Ezra’s howling mouth and the pained frenzy of his bulbous salutation extenuating his excitement as it smacked its way into every muscle of Eliza’s body except for the otherwise central zone.'

Organisers behind the Bad Sex in Fiction Award told music magazine NME that the book was already an 'obvious frontrunner' for this year's prize, saying: 'Morrissey's sex scene is an astonishing bid by a first time novelist for this year's Bad Sex In Fiction Award. It's convoluted, overwrought and profoundly unsexy.'

Those behind the Bad Sex in Fiction Award told NME today that the book was already an 'obvious frontrunner' for this year's prize, due to be awarded in November

It isn't his first foray into books; Morrissey released his autobiography in 2013

The prize, organised by The Literary Review magazine, was established in 1993 by critic Auberon Waugh to 'draw attention to poorly written, perfunctory or redundant passages of sexual description in modern fiction, and to discourage them'.

Previous winners include Norman Mailer, Giles Coren and Melvyn Bragg. Last year the honour went to Ben Okri for The Age of Magic.

Okri's offending words read: 'When his hand brushed her nipple it tripped a switch and she came alight.'

Later in the scene, Okri describes the characters as being 'adrift on warm currents, no longer of this world,' before ending the unfortunate passage with 'somewhere in the night a stray rocket went off'.

Last month, Morrissey made headlines after declaring that suicide is 'admirable' in his first on-screen interview in 10 years.

The singer made the dark statement in an interview with Larry King for Larry King Now on August 19th, which also addressed politics, mental health, and his battle with esophageal cancer.

Addressing his own battle with depression, the 56-year-old said 'everyone has thought about' suicide but only a few 'take control' to escape the 'silliness' and those individuals are 'admirable'.