Shingle Street - The brilliant collection from award-winning author Blake Morrison (Paperback)

'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.

General

Imprint:	Chatto and Windus
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	February 2015
Authors:	Blake Morrison
Dimensions:	216 x 135 x 6mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	80
ISBN-13:	978-0-7011-8877-1
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Poetry texts & anthologies > General
LSN:	0-7011-8877-4
Barcode:	9780701188771

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