Shingle Street

The brilliant collection from award-winning author Blake Morrison

By: Blake Morrison

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Paperback | 5 February 2015 | Edition Number 1

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80 Pages

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21.5 x 13.5 x 0.7

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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.

Industry Reviews

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 *

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