Blake Morrison Volgorde van de boeken (chronologisch)

The book delves into the defining features of Seamus Heaney's poetry, exploring its roots and connections to both Irish and Anglo-American literary traditions. It also examines the intricate relationship between Heaney's work and the political turmoil of Northern Ireland, providing insights into how these elements shape his poetic voice and themes. Through this analysis, Morrison offers a deeper understanding of Heaney's contributions to literature and the cultural context of his writing.

'Tender, vivid and achingly sad' GUARDIAN, BOOK OF THE YEAR TWO SISTERS publishes on the 30th anniversary of Blake Morrison’s ground-breaking book And When Did You Last See Your Father? which forged the way for a new genre of confessional memoir.

This work includes A.N. Wilson on 'The Gospel According to Matthew', Nick Cave on 'The Gospel According to Mark', Richard Holloway on 'The Gospel According to Luke', Blake Morrison on 'The Gospel According to John' and the King James Bible text of all four Gospels.

Divided into 5 parts, this novel conjures up a comic and subtle undertow of political and personal disillusion, of mythologies and urban myths that circle round our apparently comfortable lives.

Film tie-in edition starring Colin Firth, Jim Broadbent and Juliet Stevenson.

Agee's colleague at Time in the 1940s, John Hersey, writes a major evaluation of Agee's work and the Agee legend in a new introduction to this literary classic. 64 pages of photos.

The BP Portrait Award, now in its 24th year, is a popular fixture on the summer calendar, and is the leading showcase for young artists specializing in portraiture. The competit ion is open to artists from around the world and last year received a record number of over 800 entrants, all competing for the main prize of

Through its annual anthologies of New Writing the British Council launches many new authors and provides a shop window around the world in which vigorous new writing can be viewed. New Writing 12 is the new volume in this series, promoting the best in contemporary literature in the English language in Britain and internationally. It brings together some of the most formidable talents, placing new names alongside more established ones, includes extracts from novels in progress, non-fiction essays, short stories and poetry. Distinctive, innovative and entertaining, it is essential reading for all those interested in British writing today.

Wanneer zijn moeder overlijdt beseft Blake Morrison hoe weinig hij eigenlijk van haar weet. Kim Morrison was voor haar kinderen de moeder die er altijd was, voor haar man de echtgenote die zich dienstbaar opstelde en voor haar patiënten de dokter die voor hen klaarstond. Als een kameleon voegde ze zich naar elke situatie en nam ze de kleur aan die de buitenwereld van haar verwachtte. Bescheiden als ze was cijferde ze zichzelf volledig weg. Ze sprak zelden over zichzelf en vragen over haar afkomst of verleden ontweek ze. In 1997 erft Morrison een enorme stapel brieven - liefdesbrieven die zijn ouders elkaar schreven tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog. Aan de hand van deze eerlijke, grappige en soms boze brieven probeert hij een beter beeld te krijgen van zijn moeder. Zo ontdekt hij dat zij voordat ze mevrouw Morrison werd, naar de naam Agnes O'Shea luisterde en opgroeide in een grote Ierse familie. Ze komt naar voren als een sterke en zelfstandige vrouw, die in 1942 dokter werd en tijdens de oorlog in verschillende ziekenhuizen werkte. Allerlei onderwerpen waarover zij later zou zwijgen, komen aan bod: liefde, identiteit, religie, werk, en oorlog. 'Wat mijn moeder mij nooit verteld heeft' is het ongewone, soms pijnlijk eerlijke levensverhaal van een bijzondere vrouw en het ontroerende verslag van de zoektocht van een zoon naar zijn moeder.

A biography of the American poet Sylvia Plath which presents a different view of her life and death by shifting any blame away from Plath's husband, Ted Hughes, and suggesting the problems lay in her personality difficulties.

Sehen, Beobachtung, Kartographie, Empfindung.

Here is the first major collection since A. Alvarez's classic, The New Poetry, and like its controversial predecessor this anthology argues as well as illustrates. There has been no abrupt break with the past, the editors say, but there is unquestionably a new Spirit in poetry today: a shared interest in narrative, a pleasure in metaphor, a post-Modernist wit - and nerve. Charting these developments over the last two decades, the anthology opens with Seamus Heaney and includes several more poets from Ireland, alongside Douglas Dunn, Craig Raine, James Fenton, Anne Stevenson and others. It represents a flourishing Generation of poets and is altogether a brilliant new Landmark in anthologies of modern poetry.

First Edition, good quality hardcover, with unclipped dust jacket, mylar coated. DJ shows light edge creasing, and is heavily sunned; inside flap shows previous sticker and staining. Pageblock edges are slightly marked, significantly tanned, and this has leached through to the textblock. However, text is clean, no marginalia noted. CN