OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Blake Morrison
Standard Name: Morrison, Blake
Connections
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Anthologization | Medbh McGuckian | MMG
has been invited to contribute poems to many anthologies. Early in her career, her work was included in the influential Contemporary British Poetry, edited by Blake Morrison
and Andrew Motion
and published by... |
Anthologization | Fleur Adcock | The Penguin Book of Contemporary British Poetry, edited by Blake Morrison
and Andrew Motion
, included FA
among its poets. |
Literary responses | Seamus Heaney | Blake Morrison
judged this to be a religious book and no getting round it—intense, superstitious, pantheistic, even mystical, and at times very difficult to decipher, a book that gives us a rather different poet from... |
Literary responses | Seamus Heaney | Blake Morrison
wrote that in The School Bag the editors seem almost too scrupulous for their own good: smiling public men rather than disaffected boys muck[ing] about at the back of the class. TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive. 4906 (11 April 1997): 23 |
Literary responses | Deborah Moggach | Reviewing editors were apparently sanguine enough to issue this new novel for review to up-and-coming male writers. Blake Morrison
welcomed it as funny, affectionate, and unpretentious, while A. N. Wilson
implied that it had no... |
Literary responses | Elaine Feinstein | Another poet, Blake Morrison
, reviewed this book The Guardian and called it pleasingly brief, even-tempered and unsensationalist. He credited Feinstein with avoiding either the glib or the punitive in her handling of the thorny... |
Literary responses | Antonia Fraser | Blake Morrison
found this book rich in humour, intimate without being confessional. Morrison, Blake. “review of Must You Go?Guardian Weekly, 5 Feb. 2010, p. 39. 39 |
Literary responses | Michèle Roberts | In the Times Literary Supplement review, the poet Blake Morrison
declined to recognize MR
's efforts to articulate female subjectivity. He discounted the male dominated nature of literary milieus and justified resistance like his own... |
Reception | Seamus Heaney | Unusually for a poet, SH
sold copies of his works in the thousands. A critical study by Blake Morrison
appeared in 1982. Fox, Margaret, journalist, and James, Jr McKinley. “Keeper of the Irish Essence”. The Globe and Mail, 31 Aug. 2013, p. S12. |
Reception | Elizabeth Jennings | In the Times Literary SupplementPeter Redgrove
welcomed EJ
as a good rather than a great poet, lyrical, metaphysical, and psychologically penetrating, a very accomplished writer of short pieces. TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive. 2705 (4 December 1953): 778 |
Timeline
May 1981: A serial killer of prostitutes, Peter Sutcliffe,...
Building item
May 1981
A serial killer of prostitutes, Peter Sutcliffe, whom the media called the Yorkshire Ripper, was found guilty on thirteen charges.
Forbes, Peter, editor. Scanning the Century. Viking, 1999.
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Texts
Morrison, Blake. “In Confessional Circles”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 4000, p. 1404.
Morrison, Blake. “Keeper of a Stubborn Faith”. Guardian Weekly.
Morrison, Blake. “review of Must You Go?Guardian Weekly, p. 39.