Shingle Street

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<p><i>A cul-de-sac, a dead-end track,</i> <i>A sandbanked strand to sink a fleet,</i> <i>A bay, a bar, a strip, a trap,</i> <i>A wrecking ground, thats Shingle Street.</i></p><p>Blake Morrisons first two collections,<i>Dark Glasses</i>(1984) and<i>The Ballad of a Yorkshire Ripper</i>(1987) established him as one of our most inventive and accomplished contemporary poets.</p><p>In his first full-length collection for nearly thirty years,<i>Shingle Street</i>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 oceans 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.</p><p>Ardent and elegiac, and encompassing an impressive range of mood and method, this is a timely offering from a poet of distinct talents.</p>

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Born in Yorkshire, Blake Morrison is a poet, novelist, critic, journalist and librettist. He is the author of two bestselling memoirs,<i>And When</i><i>Did You Last See Your Father?</i>(winner of the J.R. Ackerley Prize for Autobiography and the Esquire Award for Non-Fiction) and<i>Things My Mother Never Told Me,</i>the novels<i>The Justification of Johann Gutenberg</i>,<i>South of the River</i>and<i>The Last Weekend</i>, and a study of the Bulger Case,<i>As If</i>.<i></i>His first collection,<i>Dark Glasses,</i>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.

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