Blake Morrison

Blake Morrison’s The Executor, a novel with poems, is out now in paperback. He is a professor of creative and life writing at Goldsmiths.

In the LRB Archive:

• When you’d started a world war: Walter Kempowski · 20 June 2019

  • Homeland by Walter Kempowski, translated by Charlotte Collins

• Lamentable Thumbs: The Marvellous Barbellion · 21 June 2018

  • The Journal of a Disappointed Man by W.N.P. Barbellion

• The Authentic Snarl: The Impudence of Tony Harrison · 30 November 2017

  • The Inky Digit of Defiance: Selected Prose 1966-2016 by Tony Harrison, edited by Edith Hall
  • Collected Poems by Tony Harrison

• He will need a raincoat: Fathers and Sons · 14 July 2016

  • The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between by Hisham Matar

• Hobohemianism · 30 June 2011

  • The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp by W.H. Davies

• It wasn’t the Oval: Michael Frayn · 7 October 2010

  • My Father’s Fortune: A Life by Michael Frayn

• Diary · 27 May 1993

• Sex’n’Love · 21 February 1991

  • The Chatto Book of Love Poetry edited by John Fuller
  • The Faber Book of Blue Verse edited by John Whitworth
  • Self-Portrait with a Slide by Hugo Williams
  • The Virago Book of Love Poetry edited by Wendy Mulford
  • Erotica: An Anthology of Women’s Writing edited by Margaret Reynolds, foreword by Jeanette Winterson
  • Daddy, Daddy by Paul Durcan

• Every three years · 3 March 1988

  • Fifty Poems by Ian Hamilton
  • A Various Art edited by Andrew Crozier and Tim Longville
  • Between Leaps: Poems 1972-1985 by Brad Leithauser
  • Eldorado by William Scammell
  • Disbelief by John Ash
  • The Automatic Oracle by Peter Porter
  • Voice-over by Norman MacCaig

• Poem: ‘Whinny Moor’ · 2 April 1987

• Poem: ‘On Sizewell Beach’ · 18 December 1986

• Tales of Hofmann · 20 November 1986

  • Acrimony by Michael Hofmann
  • Idols by Stephen Romer
  • Opia by Alan Moore
  • New Chatto Poets edited by Andrew Motion
  • A.D. Hope: Selected Poems edited by Ruth Morse
  • The Electrification of the Soviet Union by Craig Raine

• Poem: ‘Straw-Burning’ · 9 October 1986

• Poem: ‘The Kiss’ · 22 May 1986

• Dialect does it · 5 December 1985

  • No Mate for the Magpie by Frances Molloy
  • The Mysteries by Tony Harrison
  • Ukulele Music by Peter Reading
  • Hard Lines 2 edited by Ian Dury, Pete Townshend, Alan Bleasdale and Fanny Dubes
  • No Holds Barred: The Raving Beauties choose new poems by women edited by Anna Carteret, Fanny Viner and Sue Jones-Davies
  • Katerina Brac by Christopher Reid
  • Skevington’s Daughter by Oliver Reynolds
  • Rhondda Tenpenn’orth by Oliver Reynolds
  • Trio 4 by Andrew Elliott, Leon McAuley and Ciaran O’Driscoll
  • Mama Dot by Fred D’Aguiar
  • The Dread Affair: Collected Poems by Benjamin Zephaniah
  • Long Road to Nowhere by Amryl Johnson
  • Mangoes and Bullets by John Agard
  • Ragtime in Unfamiliar Bars by Ron Butlin
  • True Confessions and New Clichés by Liz Lochhead
  • Works in the Inglis Tongue by Peter Davidson
  • Wild Places: Poems in Three Leids by William Neill

• Poem: ‘The Ballad of the Yorkshire Ripper’ · 4 July 1985

• Poem: ‘Pomagne’ · 24 January 1985

• Poem: ‘Xerox’ · 6 December 1984

• Tropical Storms · 6 September 1984

  • Poems of Science edited by John Heath-Stubbs and Phillips Salman
  • The Kingfisher by Amy Clampitt
  • The Ice Factory by Philip Gross
  • Venus and the Rain by Medbh McGuckian
  • Saying hello at the station by Selima Hill
  • Dreaming Frankenstein and Collected Poems by Liz Lochhead
  • News for Babylon: The Chatto Book of West Indian-British Poetry edited by James Berry
  • Human Rites: Selected Poems 1970-1982 by E.A. Markham
  • Midsummer by Derek Walcott

• Poem: ‘A Child in Winter’ · 1 December 1983

• Poem: ‘Noblesse Oblige’ · 7 July 1983

• Fenton makes a hit · 10 January 1983

  • In Memory of War: Poems 1968-1982 by James Fenton

• Poem: ‘The Grange Boy’ · 30 December 1982

• Beach Poets · 16 September 1982

  • The Fortunate Traveller by Derek Walcott
  • Sun Poem by Edward Kamau Brathwaite
  • Collected Poems by Bernard Spencer, edited by Roger Bowen
  • Selected Poems by Odysseus Elytis
  • Poems from Oby by George MacBeth
  • The New Ewart: Poems 1980-1982 by Gavin Ewart
  • The Apple-Broadcast by Peter Redgrove

• Labouring · 1 April 1982

  • Continuous by Tony Harrison
  • The Oresteia by Aeschylus, translated by Tony Harrison
  • US Martial by Tony Harrison
  • A Kumquat for John Keats by Tony Harrison

• Poem: ‘The Renunciation’ · 20 November 1980

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