'The critic every literary editor turns to … an essential reference book' – The Spectator

Blake Morrison is a poet, author, and academic known for acclaimed memoirs, narrative poetry, and literary criticism. And When Did You Last See Your Father? was winner of the J. R. Ackerley Prize and adapted into a film. His remarkable works include Things My Mother Never Told Me, The Ballad of the Yorkshire Ripper, and Afterburn, his most recent poetry collection. Blake was literary editor for The Observer and the Independent on Sunday and Professor of Creative and Life Writing at Goldsmiths, University of London. Other notable honours include the Dylan Thomas, Somerset Maugham and E. M. Forster Awards. Blake will talk about his absorbing new book On Memoir, an A-Z exploration of the craft, ethics and boundaries of life-writing.

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