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

Morrison, Blake

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0701188774 ISBN 13: 9780701188771

Verlag: Chatto & Windus, 2015

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"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)

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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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• Verlag: Chatto & Windus
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0701188774
• ISBN 13: 9780701188771
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 80