Martian Arts
Jonathan Raban, 23 July 1987
The Ballad of the Yorkshire Ripper
by Blake Morrison.
Chatto, 48 pp., £4.95, May 1987,0 7011 3227 2 Show More
by Blake Morrison.
Chatto, 48 pp., £4.95, May 1987,
“... stretched beneath a pallOf melancholy that would leaveSomething of its gloom behind ...Or Anthony Thwaite:Now what you feared so long has got you too.The blankness has descended where you lieDeep in that building you already knew ...Or Steve Ellis:Hull was the global meridianall poetry was measured from;and now you’re gone, a flat blank gapempty as ... ”