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Philip Blake Morrison FRSL (born 8 October 1950) is an English poet and author who has published in a wide range of fiction and non-fiction genres. His greatest success came with the publication of his memoirs And When Did You Last See Your Father?
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.
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. After working for the Times Literary Supplement, he went on to become literary editor of both The Observer and the
Poetry, Fiction, Criticism. edit data. Blake Morrison was educated at Nottingham University, McMaster University and University College, London. After working for the Times Literary Supplement, he went on to become literary editor of both The Observer and the Independent on Sunday before becoming a full-time writer in 1995.A Fellow of the Royal ...
The professor of Creative Writing at Goldsmiths College, revered journalist, novelist, and godfather of the “narrative non-fiction” genre confesses to feeling nervous about the publication of his...
‘Sorry, no movement. All made up by the literary editor of the Spectator.’. 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.
