Blake Morrison is an author whose work navigates the terrain between fiction, poetry, and literary criticism. His style is characterized by a profound insight into the human psyche and precise language, exploring complex familial relationships and memory. Morrison focuses on universal themes of loss, identity, and the search for meaning within personal narratives. His writing is esteemed for its candidness and literary mastery.
The BP Portrait Award, now in its 24th year, is a popular fixture on the summer calendar, and is the leading showcase for young artists specializing in portraiture. The competit ion is open to artists from around the world and last year received a record number of over 800 entrants, all competing for the main prize of
This work includes A.N. Wilson on 'The Gospel According to Matthew', Nick Cave on 'The Gospel According to Mark', Richard Holloway on 'The Gospel According to Luke', Blake Morrison on 'The Gospel According to John' and the King James Bible text of all four Gospels.
Agee's colleague at Time in the 1940s, John Hersey, writes a major evaluation of Agee's work and the Agee legend in a new introduction to this literary classic. 64 pages of photos.
Film tie-in edition starring Colin Firth, Jim Broadbent and Juliet Stevenson.
Through a series of letters from his parents' passionate World War II courtship, Morrison uncovers a startling, touching story. This follow-up to his critically acclaimed 1993 memoir paints the unforgettable picture of a quietly determined heroine and of a son's search to learn the truth about her.
Here is the first major collection since A. Alvarez's classic, The New Poetry, and like its controversial predecessor this anthology argues as well as illustrates. There has been no abrupt break with the past, the editors say, but there is unquestionably a new Spirit in poetry today: a shared interest in narrative, a pleasure in metaphor, a post-Modernist wit - and nerve. Charting these developments over the last two decades, the anthology opens with Seamus Heaney and includes several more poets from Ireland, alongside Douglas Dunn, Craig Raine, James Fenton, Anne Stevenson and others. It represents a flourishing Generation of poets and is altogether a brilliant new Landmark in anthologies of modern poetry.
Divided into 5 parts, this novel conjures up a comic and subtle undertow of political and personal disillusion, of mythologies and urban myths that circle round our apparently comfortable lives.
The book delves into the defining features of Seamus Heaney's poetry, exploring its roots and connections to both Irish and Anglo-American literary traditions. It also examines the intricate relationship between Heaney's work and the political turmoil of Northern Ireland, providing insights into how these elements shape his poetic voice and themes. Through this analysis, Morrison offers a deeper understanding of Heaney's contributions to literature and the cultural context of his writing.
'Tender, vivid and achingly sad' GUARDIAN, BOOK OF THE YEAR TWO SISTERS publishes on the 30th anniversary of Blake Morrison’s ground-breaking book And When Did You Last See Your Father? which forged the way for a new genre of confessional memoir.