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

"Shingle Street is a bravura performance that's also solid and heartfelt" -- Carol Rumens Observer "A good, fresh performance to make a comeback with" -- Derwent May Standpoint "Blake Morrison's poetry glints like a river seen through the mud" -- Michael Conaghan Belfast Telegraph Morning "These are humane poems, skillful, conversational, delicate and more complex than they at first appear" -- Rory Waterman The Times Literary Supplement "These are humane poems, skillful, conversational, delicate and more complex than they at first appear" -- Rory Waterman The Times Literary Supplement

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

"Shingle Street is a bravura performance that's also solid and heartfelt" -- Carol Rumens Observer "A good, fresh performance to make a comeback with" -- Derwent May Standpoint "Blake Morrison's poetry glints like a river seen through the mud" -- Michael Conaghan Belfast Telegraph Morning "These are humane poems, skillful, conversational, delicate and more complex than they at first appear" -- Rory Waterman The Times Literary Supplement "These are humane poems, skillful, conversational, delicate and more complex than they at first appear" -- Rory Waterman The Times Literary Supplement