# Shingle Street

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- Book: [Shingle Street](https://www.bookquiver.com/blake-morrison/shingle-street) ([Shingle Street.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/blake-morrison/shingle-street.md))
- Authors: [Blake Morrison](https://www.bookquiver.com/blake-morrison)
- Publisher: vintage_digital
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-14-4819-098-0
- Published: 2015-02-05
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

‘A cul-de-sac, a dead-end track, A sandbanked strand to sink a fleet, A bay, a bar, a strip, a trap, A wrecking ground, that’s Shingle Street.’ Blake Morrison’s first two collections, Dark Glasses (1984) and The Ballad of a Yorkshire Ripper (1987) established him as one of our most inventive and accomplished contemporary poets. In his first full-length collection for nearly thirty years, Shingle Street sees a return to the form with which he started 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; while elsewhere portraits of the past bring forth the dear and the departed. Ardent and elegiac, and encompassing an impressive range of mood and method, this is a timely offering from a poet of distinct talents.