Shingle Street - Blake Morrison

Descriere Shingle Street - Blake Morrison

`A cul-de-sac, a dead-end track, \n A sandbanked strand to sink a fleet, \n A bay, a bar, a strip, a trap, \n A wrecking ground, that's Shingle Street.' \n \n 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. \n \n 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. \n \n Ardent and elegiac, and encompassing an impressive range of mood and method, this is a timely offering from a poet of distinct talents. \n

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CHATTO & WINDUS

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ENSTK

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9780701188771

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1

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