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'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 (1985) 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. Beneath the surface of this collection is an undertow of loss: a piercing examination of change amid a shifting world. Ardent and elegiac, and encompassing an impressive range of mood and method, this is a timely offering from a poet of distinct talents.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Poetry Poetry by individual poets

• Full title: Shingle Street
• Author: Blake Morrison
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 80
• EAN: 9780701188771
• ISBN: 0701188774
• ID: 04643587
• Publisher: Vintage Publishing
• Weight: 100 g
• Dimensions: 217 × 137 × 7 mm
• Date of publishing: 05. February 2015

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