Blake Morrison
Praise for Afterburn
'Blake Morrison’s poems move with unforced grace between grief and illumination, discovering time and again the luminous in the everyday: the light that spills from a canoeist’s oars, the "feather-veins and s ...
Julia Copus
'It isn’t often you pick up a new book of poems without a shadow of literary anxiety hanging over your head. Morrison finds the subtlest feelings in the simplest of material, never the other way round. A m ...
Hugo Williams
'In Afterburn Blake Morrison takes the quotidian details of our human existence and alchemizes them into poems that are beautifully accessible, lucid, tender and humane. From devastatingly poignant ele ...
Fiona Benson
'Blake Morrison’s poems move with unforced grace between grief and illumination, discovering time and again the luminous in the everyday: the light that spills from a canoeist’s oars, the "feather-veins and s ...
Julia Copus
'It isn’t often you pick up a new book of poems without a shadow of literary anxiety hanging over your head. Morrison finds the subtlest feelings in the simplest of material, never the other way round. A m ...
Hugo Williams
'In Afterburn Blake Morrison takes the quotidian details of our human existence and alchemizes them into poems that are beautifully accessible, lucid, tender and humane. From devastatingly poignant ele ...
Fiona Benson
'Blake Morrison’s poems move with unforced grace between grief and illumination, discovering time and again the luminous in the everyday: the light that spills from a canoeist’s oars, the "feather-veins and s ...
Julia Copus
'It isn’t often you pick up a new book of poems without a shadow of literary anxiety hanging over your head. Morrison finds the subtlest feelings in the simplest of material, never the other way round. A m ...
Hugo Williams
'In Afterburn Blake Morrison takes the quotidian details of our human existence and alchemizes them into poems that are beautifully accessible, lucid, tender and humane. From devastatingly poignant ele ...
Fiona Benson