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Philip Blake Morrison FRSL (born 8 October 1950) is an English poet and author who has published in a wide range of fiction and non-fiction genres. His greatest success came with the publication of his memoirs And When Did You Last See Your Father?
Nov 29, 2021 · Blake Morrison. Blake Morrison was born in Skipton, Yorkshire, and educated at Nottingham University, McMaster University and University College, London. After working for the Times Literary Supplement, he went on to become literary editor of both The Observer and the Independent on Sunday before becoming a full-time writer in 1995.
Oct 1, 2023 · His latest memoir, Two Sisters, is an unflinching account of hoe addiction can affect families. Speaking to The Big Issue for his Letter to my Younger Self, Morrison reflects on his early love of literature and his decision to write about his family. My main interests when I was 16 were football, poetry and girls.
A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and former Chair of the Poetry Book Society and Vice-Chair of PEN, Blake has written fiction, poetry, journalism, literary criticism and libretti, as well as adapting plays for the stage. His best-known works are probably his two memoirs, "And When Did You Last See Your Father?"
Blake Morrison's critical work includes The Movement: English Poetry and Fiction of the 1950s (1980) and Seamus Heaney (1982). He is editor (with Andrew Motion) of The Penguin Book of Contemporary British Poetry (1982) and wrote a book for children, The Yellow House (1987), illustrated by Helen Craig.
Generous selection of work previously published in Dark Glasses and The Ballad of the Yorkshire Ripper, along with a number of new poems, including the ‘Kindertotenlieder’ (poems on the death of children) and ‘Madrigalia’, a sequence of love poems exploring misunderstandings between men and women.
Blake Morrison is an author and academic whose work encompasses poetry, autobiography, fiction, non-fiction (including a study of the murder of James Bulger), libretti and journalism. The Yorkshire-born Morrison came to public prominence in 1993 with his memoir And When Did You Last See Your Father?
Blake Morrison is best known for his autobiographical works ‘And When Did You Last See Your Father?’ and ‘Things My Mother Never Told Me’, which redefined the memoir form. He has also written fiction, poetry, journalism, literary criticism and libretti, and has adapted plays for the stage.
Feb 18, 2023 · Blake Morrison is a poet, essayist, novelist and critic, but remains best known for And When Did You Last See Your Father?, his memoir of his father, and Things My Mother Never Told Me,...
Feb 13, 2023 · When it comes to writing intimate family memoirs, Blake Morrison is, he admits in his latest, “a serial offender”. Morrison published his bestselling And When Did You Last See Your Father?
