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About Blake Morrison

Blake Morrison was born in Yorkshire. He is the author of two collections of poetry Dark Glasses and The Ballad of the Yorkshire Ripper; a children's book The Yellow House; critical studies of the Movement and Seamus Heaney; and is co-editor of The Penguin Book of Contemporary British Poetry. His bestselling memoir And when did you last see your father? won the Waterstone's/Esquire/Volvo Award for Non-Fiction and the J.R. Ackerley Prize for Autobiography in 1993. He lives in London.