Blake Morrison on Granta.com
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God and Me
Blake Morrison
‘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
Blake Morrison
‘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?
Blake Morrison
Crownhill, Plymouth 20.1.43 Dear Agnes (Gennie in future), Just a line to let you know...
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Baht ’At
Blake Morrison
‘I'd already begun to suspect that sex brought misery or death, and now I knew.’
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Doctors and Nurses
Blake Morrison
‘Skirtless, jumperless, she lies on the floor, her hair settling about her like a silky parachute.’
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Bicycle Thieves
Blake Morrison
‘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?
Blake Morrison
‘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
Blake Morrison
‘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.’
