Blake Morrison Bücher

Sehen, Beobachtung, Kartographie, Empfindung.

The BP Portrait Award, now in its 24th year, is a popular fixture on the summer calendar, and is the leading showcase for young artists specializing in portraiture. The competit ion is open to artists from around the world and last year received a record number of over 800 entrants, all competing for the main prize of

This work includes A.N. Wilson on 'The Gospel According to Matthew', Nick Cave on 'The Gospel According to Mark', Richard Holloway on 'The Gospel According to Luke', Blake Morrison on 'The Gospel According to John' and the King James Bible text of all four Gospels.

Film tie-in edition starring Colin Firth, Jim Broadbent and Juliet Stevenson.

Through a series of letters from his parents' passionate World War II courtship, Morrison uncovers a startling, touching story. This follow-up to his critically acclaimed 1993 memoir paints the unforgettable picture of a quietly determined heroine and of a son's search to learn the truth about her.

Here is the first major collection since A. Alvarez's classic, The New Poetry, and like its controversial predecessor this anthology argues as well as illustrates. There has been no abrupt break with the past, the editors say, but there is unquestionably a new Spirit in poetry today: a shared interest in narrative, a pleasure in metaphor, a post-Modernist wit - and nerve. Charting these developments over the last two decades, the anthology opens with Seamus Heaney and includes several more poets from Ireland, alongside Douglas Dunn, Craig Raine, James Fenton, Anne Stevenson and others. It represents a flourishing Generation of poets and is altogether a brilliant new Landmark in anthologies of modern poetry.

Divided into 5 parts, this novel conjures up a comic and subtle undertow of political and personal disillusion, of mythologies and urban myths that circle round our apparently comfortable lives.