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A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and former Chair of the Poetry Book Society and Vice-Chair of PEN, Blake has written fiction, poetry, journalism, literary criticism and libretti, as well as adapting plays for the stage.
- Selected Poems
Generous selection of work previously published in Dark...
- Selected Poems
Blake Morrison's critical work includes The Movement: English Poetry and Fiction of the 1950s (1980) and Seamus Heaney (1982). He is editor (with Andrew Motion) of The Penguin Book of Contemporary British Poetry (1982) and wrote a book for children, The Yellow House (1987), illustrated by Helen Craig.
Born in Yorkshire, Blake Morrison is a poet, novelist and librettist, as well as the author of two bestselling memoirs, And When Did You Last See Your Father and Things My Mother Never Told Me.
Blake Morrison is best known for his autobiographical works ‘And When Did You Last See Your Father?’ and ‘Things My Mother Never Told Me’, which redefined the memoir form. He has also written fiction, poetry, journalism, literary criticism and libretti, and has adapted plays for the stage.
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Generous selection of work previously published in Dark Glasses and The Ballad of the Yorkshire Ripper, along with a number of new poems, including the ‘Kindertotenlieder’ (poems on the death of children) and ‘Madrigalia’, a sequence of love poems exploring misunderstandings between men and women. ‘Our bodies in the shower.
Blake’s first published book, a revised version of the PhD he completed at University College, London, is a study of the writers who became known as the Movement – chief among them, Philip Larkin, Kingsley Amis, Thom Gunn, Donald Davie and D.J. Enright.
