Afterburn
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
1784746037
ISBN-13
9781784746032
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Imprint
Chatto & Windus
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jan 29th, 2026
Print length
96 Pages
Weight
112 grams
Dimensions
21.50 x 13.60 x 0.90 cms
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''Lucid, tender and humane . . . One of the most formally agile and compassionate poets of our age’ Fiona Benson
Here you are, on the balcony,
the sea serenading you,
the sun with its armful of light.
In Afterburn, Blake Morrison returns to poetry, his first calling, to offers scenes from his own life and the lives of others. In psychology, ''afterburn'' refers to the time before a past event is assimilated – an idea that resonates through these poems (which themselves linger after reading) about memory and our attempts to articulate, shape or contain it.
Throughout the collection, not least in two extraordinary sequences – one about his sister, the other about Elizabeth Bishop – the poet sees with new eyes the turning points in a life''s accidental course. What holds his wise, touching, melancholy yet joyful poems together are the small intimacies that bind us to others, under time’s lengthening shadow: ‘you moved too fast for me to catch you / and so did the years.’
Playful and charming, sometimes rakishly so, Afterburn nevertheless reveals an open, and vulnerable, heart.
***
''Distils the insights of a seasoned memoirist into images that linger long after the final page'' Julia Copus
''A master of the sonnet . . . I’m taking Afterburn to my desert island'' Hugo Williams
Here you are, on the balcony,
the sea serenading you,
the sun with its armful of light.
In Afterburn, Blake Morrison returns to poetry, his first calling, to offers scenes from his own life and the lives of others. In psychology, ''afterburn'' refers to the time before a past event is assimilated – an idea that resonates through these poems (which themselves linger after reading) about memory and our attempts to articulate, shape or contain it.
Throughout the collection, not least in two extraordinary sequences – one about his sister, the other about Elizabeth Bishop – the poet sees with new eyes the turning points in a life''s accidental course. What holds his wise, touching, melancholy yet joyful poems together are the small intimacies that bind us to others, under time’s lengthening shadow: ‘you moved too fast for me to catch you / and so did the years.’
Playful and charming, sometimes rakishly so, Afterburn nevertheless reveals an open, and vulnerable, heart.
***
''Distils the insights of a seasoned memoirist into images that linger long after the final page'' Julia Copus
''A master of the sonnet . . . I’m taking Afterburn to my desert island'' Hugo Williams
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