Shingle Street : The brilliant collection from award-winning author Blake Morrison Paperback / softback
by Blake Morrison
Paperback / softback
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‘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.
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- Publisher:Vintage Publishing
- Publication Date:05/02/2015
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Less than 10 available - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:80 pages
- Publisher:Vintage Publishing
- Publication Date:05/02/2015
- Category:
- ISBN:9780701188771