LATEST SALES & OFFERS: PROMOTIONS

Close Notification

Your cart does not contain any items

Shingle Street

The brilliant collection from award-winning author Blake Morrison

Blake Morrison

$39.99

Paperback

Not in-store but you can order this
How long will it take?

QTY:

English
Chatto & Windus
15 February 2015
A new collection of poems from bestselling poet, novelist and memoirist, Blake Morrison

'A cul-de-sac, a dead-end track, A sandbanked strand to sink a fleet, A bay, a bar, a strip, a trap,

A wrecking ground, that's Shingle Street.'

Blake Morrison's first two collections, Dark Glasses (1984) and The Ballad of a Yorkshire Ripper (1987) established him as one of our most inventive and accomplished contemporary poets.

In his first full-length collection for nearly thirty years, Shingle Street sees a return to the form with which he started his career. Set along the Suffolk coast, the opening poems address a receding world - an eroding landscape, 'abashed by the ocean's passion'. But coastal life gives way to other, more dangerous, vistas- a wave unleashes a flood-tide of terror; a sequence of topical poems lays bare pressing political issues; while elsewhere portraits of the past bring forth the dear and the departed.

Ardent and elegiac, and encompassing an impressive range of mood and method, this is a timely offering from a poet of distinct talents.
By:  
Imprint:   Chatto & Windus
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 215mm,  Width: 135mm,  Spine: 8mm
Weight:   91g
ISBN:   9780701188771
ISBN 10:   0701188774
Pages:   80
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Born in Yorkshire, Blake Morrison is a poet, novelist, critic, journalist and librettist. He is the author of two bestselling memoirs, And When Did You Last See Your Father? (winner of the J.R. Ackerley Prize for Autobiography and the Esquire Award for Non-Fiction) and Things My Mother Never Told Me, the novels The Justification of Johann Gutenberg, South of the River and The Last Weekend, and a study of the Bulger Case, As If. His first collection, Dark Glasses, was a Poetry Book Society Choice and won the Somerset Maugham Award. He lives in South London, and is Professor of Creative Writing at Goldsmiths College.

Reviews for Shingle Street: The brilliant collection from award-winning author Blake Morrison

Shingle Street is a bravura performance that's also solid and heartfelt -- Carol Rumens Observer A good, fresh performance to make a comeback with -- Derwent May Standpoint Blake Morrison's poetry glints like a river seen through the mud -- Michael Conaghan Belfast Telegraph Morning These are humane poems, skillful, conversational, delicate and more complex than they at first appear -- Rory Waterman The Times Literary Supplement These are humane poems, skillful, conversational, delicate and more complex than they at first appear -- Rory Waterman The Times Literary Supplement


See Also