SHINGLE STREET

In his first full-length collection for nearly thirty years, Shingle Street sees a return to the form with which Blake Morrison began his career. Set along the Suffolk coast, the opening poems address a receding world - an eroding landscape, ‘abashed by the ocean’s passion’. But coastal life gives way to other, more dangerous, vistas: a wave unleashes a flood-tide of terror; a sequence of topical poems lays bare pressing political issues; portraits of the past bring forth the dear and the departed.