Blake Morrison
Blake Morrison is the author of several books, including And When Did You Last See Your Father?, As If, the essay collection Too True and Things My Mother Never Told Me. He lives in London.
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God and Me
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‘My hopes weren’t high, even to begin with, so I felt no bitterness when He didn’t reveal Himself’
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When I Last Saw Him
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‘When young, we were impatient with our parents: now we want to atone for our callowness, to take measure of them, to understand which parts of them live on in us.’
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Have You Decided To Love Me Yet?
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Crownhill, Plymouth 20.1.43 Dear Agnes (Gennie in future), Just a line to let you know...
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Baht ’At
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‘I'd already begun to suspect that sex brought misery or death, and now I knew.’
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Doctors and Nurses
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‘Skirtless, jumperless, she lies on the floor, her hair settling about her like a silky parachute.’
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Bicycle Thieves
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‘Late June, scorched grass and sprinklers, the sky as if scuffed and beaten. Too hot to work, too lazy to think.’
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When Did You Last See Your Father?
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‘A hot September Saturday in Cheshire, 1959. We haven't moved for ten minutes. Ahead of us, a queue of cars stretches out of sight around the corner. Everyone has turned his engine off, and now my father does so too. ‘
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Interview: Salman Rushdie
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‘It’s often said that writers should never explain their work, but perhaps we could agree that these are exceptional circumstances.’
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Poetry and The Poetry Business
Blake Morrison
‘If there is one image that has dominated our notion of English poetry since 1945 it is that of restraint.’