{"product_id":"afterburn-paperback","title":"Afterburn - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eBlake Morrison\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eHere you are, on the balcony, \u003cbr\u003e the sea serenading you, \u003cbr\u003e the sun with its armful of light.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In Afterburn, his first collection since Shingle Street (2015), the renowned life writer 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 period of time before a past event is assimilated: an idea that resonates through these poems - which themselves linger after reading - about memories and our human attempts to articulate, shape or contain them. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Revisiting past and alternate selves, the poet dives back into the unassuming stream of our dailiness, to see with new eyes the turning points in a lifetime's accidental course. What holds these wise, touching, 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.' \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Playful, charming, sometimes rakishly so, Afterburn nevertheless reveals an open, and vulnerable, heart.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eBorn in Skipton, Yorkshire, \u003cb\u003eBlake Morrison\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of bestselling memoirs, \u003ci\u003eAnd When Did You Last See Your Father?\u003c\/i\u003e (winner of the J.R. Ackerley Prize for Autobiography and the \u003ci\u003eEsquire\u003c\/i\u003e Award for Non-Fiction) and \u003ci\u003eThings My Mother Never Told Me\u003c\/i\u003e. His poetry collections include \u003ci\u003eDark Glasses\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the Dylan Thomas and Somerset Maugham prizes, \u003ci\u003ePendle Witches\u003c\/i\u003e, which was illustrated by Paula Rego, and \u003ci\u003eShingle Street\u003c\/i\u003e. He is also a novelist, critic, journalist and librettist. He lives in South London.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 80\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 24, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47500258771193,"sku":"9781784746032","price":26.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/NXV_SxXWFk9781784746032.webp?v=1773259876","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/afterburn-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}