Shingle Street

Vorwort
A new collection of poems from bestselling poet, novelist and memoirist, Blake Morrison

Autorentext
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.

Klappentext

Trade paperback. A new collection of poems from bestselling poet, novelist and memoirist, Blake Morrison; his first full-length collection for nearly 30 years. A piercing examination of change amid a shifting world.

Zusammenfassung
Set along the Suffolk coast, this book includes opening poems that address a receding world - an eroding landscape, 'abashed by the ocean's passion'.