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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 · Learn about Blake Morrison, a Yorkshire-born author of novels, memoirs, biographies and poetry. Find out his latest news, publications and biography on his official web site.
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.
- Skipton, Yorkshire, England
- Chatto & Windus
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?"
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- October 8, 1950
A collection of poems by the British writer and poet Blake Morrison, covering themes such as death, love, and misunderstanding. The book includes poems from his previous works and some new ones, such as the ‘Kindertotenlieder’ and ‘Madrigalia’.
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. Elected: 1988. Year of birth: 1950. Image credit: Charles Moriarty. Born in Yorkshire, Blake Morrison is a poet, novelist and librettist, as well as the author of two bestselling memoirs, And When Did You Last See Your Father and Things My Mother Never Told Me.
