‘Few writers can claim to have affected the literary landscape like Blake Morrison’ - The Mail on Sunday
‘Morrison has a startling gift' – The Literary Review
Poet, novelist and journalist Blake Morrison’s autobiographical works And When Did You Last See Your Father? and Things My Mother Never Told Me redefined the memoir form. As a passionate reader of other people’s lives and honest chronicler of his own, he will talk about the challenges, moral dilemmas and charms of writing narrative non-fiction and its power to move and change us. From AI to Ethics, Politics to Sex there is something for every reader and writer in this modern classic.
Blake Morrison is Professor of Creative and Life Writing at Goldsmiths College. His non-fiction work includes When Did You Last See Your Father?, winner of the J. R. Ackerley Prize, As If, about the murder of the child James Bulger in Liverpool, Things My Mother Never Told Me and Two Sisters. His poetry collections include Dark Glasses, winner of a Somerset Maugham Award, Shingle Street and the recently published Afterburn.
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